The Nano ESP32

I struggle to understand the appeal of these more premium ESP32 boards. I’m gonna throw the same code on it. It’s an ESP32 either way. What exactly am I buying here for that 3x price

What you get when you pick a board is not just the raw specs, but also the community, apis, and documentation. I choose to buy Adafruit products because I know they will be documented and supported for a long time.

The price of these aren't quite as egregious as the incredibly dated ATMEGA8-based Arduino Unos, but these still aren't really priced competitively to other offerings on the market. This is even considering other ESP32-S3 boards.

It's almost as if Arduino is sherlocking Adafruit. They have offered ESP32 in a small standard-ish form for some time along with basic iot cloud logging services. Adafruit has also used and contributed heavily used libraries to Arduino.

Looking at how much our school had to pay for Amstrad PC1512 computers, all the ongoing discussion about Nano ESP32 price feels like a joke.<p>You really think that paying $20 for something more powerfull than a PC1512, which when considering inflation, would cost $1722 in todays money, is really being robbed?!?<p>Really, what a wonderfull thing that for $20 I can get something more powerful than what I used to play Defenders of the Crown on, and it fits on the pocket.

I&#x27;m using the Arduino RP2040 in a project. This is also in the same form factor as the Nano and is truly remarkable in terms of value for money. Really impressed with Arduino

What are some proven yet not premium priced boards for MicroPython besides this one?<p>Goal is just to play around with a bunch of sensors from Joy-It X40 40 sensor sampler - nothing serious.<p>Looking at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forum.micropython.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forum.micropython.org&#x2F;</a> looks like activity is evenly split between various ESP8266 and ESP32 boards.

Is it battery friendly and is it handling deep sleep properly? No? Then this is yet another board with a esp32 (but overpriced)

Tangent, but can anyone advise how low (and small) in the Arduino lineage one can go and still have the ability to run a ~2-3&quot; touchscreen and power animations at (say) 10 FPS?<p>I have a project in mind, but I&#x27;ve struggled to find this sort of practical answer oonline...

Interesting that it&#x27;s using a module from uBlox instead of an ESP directly

I can&#x27;t find much detail in that marketing page. What makes it IoT? Does it do some low energy protocol like zigbee&#x2F;thread&#x2F;lora etc? It appears to be just bt&#x2F;wifi.

Whats the point of Wifi if you need to power it with a USB cable? It should come with a buck-boost so we can run it with batteries! (at least for that price)

To those that are in the embedded space, what are some websites that I can lurk to get a better understanding? Places to buy parts?<p>Where do you start?

It would have been more exciting with a video out port like NTSC&#x2F;PAL or VGA.

I just used one of these to make an air quality monitor, would highly recommend!

Based on a pre RISC-V ESP32.<p>Unfortunate.

3.3V IO, boring. -3-