“Any potential purchasers should wait until Adafruit update the Arduino libraries and more:
- Platformio only has 'adafruit_feather_esp32s3' which isn't the PSRAM variant.
- The Arduino library repo which currently supports it is: 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/espressif/arduino-esp32/gh-pages/package_esp32_dev_index.json' which contains this TFT variant.
Unfortunately this is another case of a device/chipmaker rushing out a device without the ecosystem support.
Also, the development -> upload -> boot cycle is much better on the Raspberry Pico2040 (this ESP32 variant kludges the USB serial so you can't keep a monitor up like minicom like you can on Pi).”
“This board has almost everything. Feather format let you use the Feather echo-system if you solder the pin, but you can already add many sensor over the Stemma QT connector (I2C) using displayio or simple print, you can display the value coming out of your sensor. The MCU does Wifi and Bluetooth LE so you have access to the Wifi workflow that Adafruit is working on, and the build-in screen show you the current IP. The only missing bit might be more input buttons. You can use the BOOT button, except during reset, but that limit your user interface to one single button. Except for that, this board is the perfect CircuitPython board because it is very flexible and fit many usecase.”
