One for Gadget Masters to note: there's a new version of the Arduino Nano - the IoT-friendly Nano ESP32 - bringing the Espressif ESP32-S3 microcontroller into the Arduino ecosystem. The Wi-Fi and ...

ESPConnect is a capable flashing utility for ESP32 and ESP8266 boards. It depends on the Arduino IDE or PlatformIO IDE if you plan to use community-submitted or ready-made firmware. The web-based ...

Elecrow “All-in-One Starter Kit for ESP32-P4” is an open-source learning and prototyping platform based on the ESP32-P4 ...

Espressif has just introduced the ESP Private Agents platform design to help developers build local, private, and ...

My first foray into the IoT utilized the Espressif ESP8266, an SoC with 32-bit MCU and 2.4-GHz Wi-Fi built in. Since then, I have used many different module variants based on the microcontroller. So ...

The aim of the Internet of Things (IoT) is to connect objects (or things) to the Internet. These ‘things’ use a lot of data to be managed as part of a larger embedded ecosystem. The developer needs to ...

Some ESP32 boards become community favourites because they're small, cheap, or easy to flash. The ESP32-A1S (known also as ...

The Chinese chip manufacturer Espressif is known for its cheap and widely used microcontrollers with integrated WLAN, ESP8266 and ESP32. The new ESP32-P4 is significantly more powerful because it ...

Update 3/9/25: After receiving concerns about the use of the term 'backdoor' to refer to these undocumented commands, we have updated our title and story. Our original story can be found here. The ...