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What kind of programmer does one need to work with ESP32? I bought jlink for stm32 thinking that's the ultimate programmer for all my needs, however it does not claim compatibility with esp32.
I picked up an ESP32 devboard recently. I've always been intrigued by embedded but don't have a background in it at all. I have no idea what my first project should be. Any ideas?
Make an LED blink. Then, connect an RGB LED and experiment with PWM signal generation. Then, experiment with network programming, accepting a UDP packet to the ESP32 that sets the color of the RGB LED.
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I’ve actually found that ESPHome is sufficient for most basic use cases
The question then is where have you found ESPHome to fall short?
What kind of programmer does one need to work with ESP32? I bought jlink for stm32 thinking that's the ultimate programmer for all my needs, however it does not claim compatibility with esp32.
What kind of programmer does one need to work with ESP32? I bought jlink for stm32 thinking that's the ultimate programmer for all my needs, however it does not claim compatibility with esp32.
I wasnt aware of this wifi blob. This feeds a tiny paranoia I have at the back of my head when dealing with esp32/espressif. I have dozens of esp32s around and I love them, but Espressif is 100% Chinese. Im uncomfortable with what I read that every company of significant size in China automatically requires CCP party members to be involved in the company at a high level. So Im very happy to hear people such as these…
Wifi is easy... there's no way to send anything undetected, since you control the routers, etc. GSM->5G modems are a lot harder to debug... maybe now in recent years with cheaper SDRs, but a lot harder then wifi. And not sure why you'd be afraid of CCP, we saw the wikileaks, USA does a lot of similiarly bad stuff too and even got caught doing it... and if you live in a "western" country, USA has much easier access to…
I find little solace in this whataboutism.
I picked up an ESP32 devboard recently. I've always been intrigued by embedded but don't have a background in it at all. I have no idea what my first project should be. Any ideas?
I wasnt aware of this wifi blob. This feeds a tiny paranoia I have at the back of my head when dealing with esp32/espressif. I have dozens of esp32s around and I love them, but Espressif is 100% Chinese. Im uncomfortable with what I read that every company of significant size in China automatically requires CCP party members to be involved in the company at a high level. So Im very happy to hear people such as these…
Wifi is easy... there's no way to send anything undetected, since you control the routers, etc. GSM->5G modems are a lot harder to debug... maybe now in recent years with cheaper SDRs, but a lot harder then wifi. And not sure why you'd be afraid of CCP, we saw the wikileaks, USA does a lot of similiarly bad stuff too and even got caught doing it... and if you live in a "western" country, USA has much easier access to…
If the IoT ecosystem has any weak spots, it is the Tuya software stack. It would be much easier, much more useful layer to put a back door into that.
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Are we talking lightweight servers like minihttp and shizaru, mid-level lighttpd , or big-ass Apache and nginx?
Pretty barebones but working web servers are possible. Example: https://randomnerdtutorials.com/esp32-web-server-arduino-ide...
Better to start with ESP-IDF, there's a pretty full featured well documented web server, and a lot more.
https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/tree/master/examples/pr...