Here’s a look at six wireless IoT development kits that enhance multiprotocol design, from BLE and Zigbee to LoRa and Thread.

Since Espressif Systems arrived in our collective consciousness they have expanded their range from the ESP8266 to the ESP32, and going beyond the original WROOM and WROVER modules to a range of ...

It seems every day there’s a new microcontroller announcement for which the manufacturer is keen to secure your eyeballs. Today it’s the turn of Espressif, whose new part is the ESP32-P4, which ...

Waveshare ESP32-S3-Zero is a tiny (23.5×18 mm) module based on Espressif ESP32-S3 WiFi 4 and BLE microcontroller with two rows of nine through holes plus 16 pads for GPIOs, a USB-C port for power and ...

Espressif Systems’ ESP32-P4-EYE is a development kit designed for AI vision applications that looks like a standard camera. It combines an ESP32-P4 RISC-V microcontroller with an ESP32-C6 WiFi 6, BLE, ...

The goal of this project is to gain an understanding of the interface between a microcontroller and the networking systems that are used in every-day life. ESP32-S3-DevKitC-1-N32R8V Development Board ...

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 ...

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 ...