Espressif’s follow-up to their ESP8266 microcontroller. ESP32 chips and modules come with onboard Wi-Fi and Bluetooth and are available in a variety of options, including dual or single core, and with RISC-V support. Commonly used by the maker community for connected IoT projects, this chip is available on development boards of all popular maker platforms. Programming options include the Arduino IDE, ESPHome, Espruino, CircuitPython, MicroPython, NodeMCU, and several others.
In this tutorial our goal is to help guide you through setting up and use MicroPython, a simple, yet effective implementation of Python 3 tailored for microcontrollers (MCUs) that are not running an OS.
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