“This is much better than a Pico W for my purposes - way smaller, wifi seems more robust and less of a bolted-on afterthought, plenty of pins, and a neopixel on the board to boot. I use micropython - there doesn't seem to be a Waveshare-specific firmware but the generic Espressif build works fine.”
“Great little board. I was puzzled why the onboard LED appeared not to work. Eventually I discovered the way to do it in the Arduino ESP32 GPIO BlinkRGB sketch.
Just changed the pin to 10.”
“I bought three of these to try out and have not been disappointed.
This is a great little board. Very compact and a great way to create small projects with WiFi or Bluetooth included. There's plenty of PWM pins which is useful if you want to control lots of servos. I think it's a perfect upgrade over something like an Arduino Nano in many situations.
It's supported in the Arduino IDE environment. Just remember to set "USB CDC on Boot" to Enabled so the serial output works.”
“It's a neat little thing with lots of features and a variety of different systems for programming it (I'm currently using esphome). Also, very cheap at The Pi Hut.”
