[Wolves] New toy

[Adam Sweet]

On 19/07/2019 17:34, Kris Douglas wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Jul 2019, 17:35 Adam Sweet via Wolves,
> <wolves at mailman.lug.org.uk <mailto:wolves at mailman.lug.org.uk>> wrote:
> 
>     I mentioned this the other day, but I ordered a couple of ESP32 boards
>     from China for around £3.80 each and another from the UK for about £6.50
>     which arrived today. Pic below:
> 
>     http://www.adamsweet.org/pics/esp32.jpg
> 
>     It's essentially a 50x28mm wifi and bluetooth capable Arduino type board
>     for IoT projects. You could fit about 3 of them in the size of a credit
>     card. There are supporting libraries for the Arduino IDE and sample
>     sketches, one of which is a simple web server, screenshot:
> 
>     http://www.adamsweet.org/pics/esp32-web.png
> 
>     More information here:
> 
>     https://randomnerdtutorials.com/getting-started-with-esp32/
> 
>     Is anybody else playing with anything similar?
> 
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> 
> I have an Onion Omega, pretty similar, but never seen those ESPs before,
> they're absolute beauties!

Oh I'd never heard of those. I'm pretty new to all this stuff, I know
bugger all about electronics and I was never that interested in the
Arduino or similar boards and never had a use case for one, but now
there are wifi and bluetooth ones (I notice there's an LTE Onion Omega
coming too), they're a lot more useful to me.

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