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#146I bought a couple of M5Stack Cardputers to build my daughter a pair of wireless texting machines (over LORA). I have to say, for about $50 a pop, they are amazing little computers.
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#147Now 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.
I too have been a fan of M5Stack's clever product designs. The Core2 module and their extensive line of snap-on peripherals for it are an ideal hobbyist or student starter platform. And you're correct that the documentation and software support have been the weak part.
Edit to add: I just visited their site and saw they released a new version of the Core series a few months ago : the CoreS3 (which upgrades and replaces the Core2). Obviously, more, faster and better but I was curious about the specific differences. After some searching I found this article covering the changes and upgrades in detail: https://shop.m5stack.com/blogs/news/m5stack-cores3-the-third...
If I was teaching a middle school or high school hands-on intro to computers, electronics and making lab, these would be where I'd start. With screen, wifi, BT, touch, RGB LEDs, buttons, camera, mics, IR and a diverse set of sensors all built in, kids could make just about anything. And that's before even getting into the hundred-plus stackable or pluggable add-ons ranging from motor controllers and physical interfaces to LoRA, PoE and encoders.
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#148ESP32 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.
My only qualm with ESP32 is the toolchain doesn't really work with openbsd - probably not with any Unix that isn't Linux. Other than that, it's a pleasure to work with them.
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#149ESP32 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.
These seem to be specific to their older S series, where they haven't released RISC-V chips yet. Or any chips in quite some time.
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#150ESP32 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.
My only qualm with ESP32 is the toolchain doesn't really work with openbsd - probably not with any Unix that isn't Linux. Other than that, it's a pleasure to work with them.
vmm(4) to the rescue.
But yes, it is a shortcoming.