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#123Now this is really interesting! I've been a fan of M5stack for a few years and promote them here often. Up to now, the products have been mostly great but sometimes the documentation has been a bit lacking. Expressif does a fantastic job on documentation and if they can lift M5stack's game here it would be a big step forward.
M5's APIs tend to be quite buggy.
I've come across a few such as flicker caused by running the wifi on the main CPU core that's controlling the display, or RGB component order being reversed despite the ESP32 spec for their own hardware, or refusing to combine APIs for similar products (e.g. Core 1/2) resulting in multiple similar APIs and multiple imports/build configs/macros to support many of their devices at once from a single code base.
Hopefully Espressif will start lending their expertise as their documentation and software has been first class.
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#129ESP32 has effectively become the go-to family of RISC-V microcontrollers (excluding some earlier Tensilica-based chips). They are a pleasure to work with, be it the programming methods, documentation or esp-idf SDK.
I do wish their RISC-V range would catch up to the capabilities of their older Tensilica chips though, some things like USB-OTG and TFT-LCD controllers are still missing from all of their RISC-V offerings, when they had them on the old architecture.
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