I appreciate that they made this ESP32-C6 super small, BUT how am I supposed to work with this? Are there also tiny breadboards and tiny jumper wires that I can get?
@raptor85 oh interesting! I've never stumbled upon 1.27mm pins before. Thanks a lot for the pointers! I might get a pitch changer for my breadboarding needs! - Would feel better than using a "full-sized" C6 for breadboarding and then just hoping it works the same on the mini version...
@col000r it's a pretty common size, also pretty common on small embedded controllers to have paired breakout boards/programming boards/etc to interface with them. Sometimes they're bare like the esp32s (since it has all hardware onboard) but on others you'll have chips for a usb/jtag/whatever flash interface/etc on the breakout board instead of on the controller
Is there some non-prorietary #microcontroller-friendly protocol for communicating on 915 MHz US/868/MHz Europe with available hobbyist-friendly boards? Or even just hobbyist-friendly 802.11AH SOCs that aren't super expensive?
Right now it seems like one's best bet is to just go with HopeRF's #RF69HCW. It's still proprietary and has less range than LoRa, but chips and boards are a lot cheaper and far more widely available. That should be plenty for building a sensor net around one's house without needing a full WiFi and IP stack on each board or dealing with WiFi's poor penetration of walls.
A friend gave me the board of an oil heater (it has 3 relays). I wonder if I can repurpose it. I found out it has an 8-bit 20Mhz #microcontroller (PIC16F819 I/SO).
It’s alive! This microcontroller project runs on an ESP32 C3. It cycles through 7 colors and blinked the built-in LED each time the color is changed. This code does not use delays in the loop and instead sets timeouts to run the blink and change color functions.