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Your bog standard chinese cheapie ESP32 ESP-WROOM-32 Microcontroller Dev Board, with CP2102 driven Micro USB for uploading/serial comms, your typical leds, and boot/reset buttons.
If you’re reading this you probably already know what an ESP32 is and why you might want one.
I don’t have much experience with the ESP32, but I can give you these getting started with the Arduino IDE tips, for more, Google is your friend.
- Add to your Arduino Preference “Additional Board Manager URLs” – https://raw.githubusercontent.com/espressif/arduino-esp32/gh-pages/package_esp32_index.json
- Tools > Board > Boards Manager and install “esp32”
- Tools > Board > ESP32 Arduino > “ESP32 Dev Module”
- Tools > Port and choose the serial port appropriate for the ESP32 you just plugged in
- Grab this Hello World sketch.and enter your wifi SSID and password
- Click upload, hold down the Boot button at least until you see “Writing at 0x00010000... (2 %)” you can let go then and it will continue
- Tools > Serial Monitor, 115200 baud
- Cross fingers, hopefully you will see it connect to WIFI and request a file from my server, job done, world is hello
Troubleshooting
- I had to install pyserial on my ancient linux box, sudo pip3 install pyserial
- Your router’s built in DNS server might not resolve example.com (shakes fist at much time wasted) – best use my Hello World above instead to get started
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