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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">The ESP8266 is a great little board but a little limited by IO and memory. I started with 8266’s but quickly progressed to the ESP32 (given my sloppy code and time critical usage). With an additional
core, faster processors, more memory, BLE, still in a cheap format the ESP32 has become my go to micro.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">I’m not the best electronically, have spent a great deal of wasted time trying to find issues either due to my ignorance of the way in which a controller works, a component works, or the Arduino
IDE function. As such I’ve swayed to the M5Stack range of products which are cheap, encased, and tend to come prepackaged with a ton of additional components, Screens, switches, gyro, battery (and management), grove and USB are all part of the StickC. There
are also a plethora of encased sensors, with sample code, that you can simply plug into the device, load the sample code and hack from there.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">I run the M5StickC+, and Atom’s for a majority of my micro needs. I’ve a couple of core’s but they are only used for development. I note the stamp, but have not used it as of yet.
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<a href="http://www.m5stack.com">www.m5stack.com</a><br>
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While the 8266 is a great learning platform, and brilliant in single simple task functions I was frustrated by it’s lack of IO and my sloppy coding creating timing issues on external serial IO.
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The Arduino IDE is great for punching out code in reasonably simple projects. For me personally it gets confusing when you are attempting to complete complex tasks with multiple libraries. I tend to use the Arduino IDE (as it’s what I’m more familiar with)
for fast and dirty code or simple projects. I use Visual Studio with Platform IO for anything large or complex where structure is important.
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Given you are on a farm you may wish to look at ESPNow, 802.11 LR(long range) and perhaps LoRa.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Chchrobotics <chchrobotics-bounces@lists.ourshack.com>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Mike Barnes<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, 19 May 2022 11:52 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Christchurch Robotics <chchrobotics@lists.ourshack.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [chbot] ESP8266 WIFI Internet of Things beginner...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">I’m looking to have a play with IOT, very much with learner plates on.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Just watched a getting started with IOT
<a href="https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DUFCmTZUoZ1M&data=05%7C01%7C%7C8e95064bc5cc4a0142a608da398e202f%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637885579842835065%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=3zc9eVLpVJSGh8RZPSnRksmv50bqQwyrPuHMERdVVm8%3D&reserved=0">
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFCmTZUoZ1M</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">What board do people here recommend for having a play initially with WiFi on my farm?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">These seem attractive price wise at $5 each landed, but are they OK or should I get something else?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Arduino IOT seems very simple for us non coders
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Looking to dip my toe in.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Regards<o:p></o:p></p>
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