<div id="geary-body" dir="auto"><div>Another ESP32 fan here, and ESP8266 anti-fan. </div><div><br></div><div>My preferred device is the 50x50 mm M5Stack range, in a nice housing with LCD and buttons, with a fairly wide range of expansion modules for GPS, LoRa, motor control, relays, etc. They also sell a prototype module with the internal connector and about 35x45 mm of donut-board for you to wire up your own things.</div><div><br></div><div>I have also used a number of PCB-only modules (by Heltec and any number of other manufacturers), but far prefer the protection provided by the M5Stack.</div><div><br></div><div>Be aware, however, that over the years, M5Stack have changed the device internally, but provide no way to tell them apart, either electronically or by simple inspection.</div><div><ul><li>Display changed from TFT to IPS with the same LCD controller. A nice improvement, except that the colours are inverted, and there is no way to tell, except by displaying a colour and inspecting to see what you have.</li><li>Different accelerometer device, with the same I2C address, and a different accelerometer device with a different I2C address, so you have to do some careful probing.</li><li>Flash has changed size.</li><li>Other changes which I can't remember off the top of my head, having blanked out the wasted hours trying to find out why it does not work.</li></ul><div>Schematics are available for all hardware. However, the schematic for the main module is from 2017, and does not represent the 2018 version; later versions have more differences, but no new schematic.</div></div><div><br></div><div>Personally, I like Micropython. Years of playing around with low-quality, special-purpose IDEs put me off the Arduino ecosystem, but it is probably better now, and probably has more libraries readily available than Micropython.</div><div><br></div><div>Stephen Irons</div><div><br></div></div><div id="geary-quote" dir="auto"><br>On Fri, May 20, 2022 at 10:14, Mark Beckett <m.beckett@amuri.net> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">
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<p><font face="Candara">I have both ESP8266 and also the ESP32 in
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<p><font face="Candara">These were useful as small standalone boards
and I soldered headers at right angle while developing the
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ESP32 on Aliexpress just put ESP32 into the search, but I have
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<p><font face="Candara"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.aliexpress.com/item/33006577783.html">www.aliexpress.com/item/33006577783.html</a></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Iām
looking to have a play with IOT, very much with learner
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Just
watched a getting started with IOT
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFCmTZUoZ1M" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFCmTZUoZ1M</a></span></p>
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board do people here recommend for having a play initially
with WiFi on my farm?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><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></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-NZ"><a href="https://www.banggood.com/Geekcreit-Wireless-NodeMcu-Lua-CH340G-V3-Based-ESP8266-WIFI-Internet-of-Things-IOT-Development-Module-p-1420166.html?cur_warehouse=CN&ID=511073&rmmds=search" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.banggood.com/Geekcreit-Wireless-NodeMcu-Lua-CH340G-V3-Based-ESP8266-WIFI-Internet-of-Things-IOT-Development-Module-p-1420166.html?cur_warehouse=CN&ID=511073&rmmds=search</a></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-NZ"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-NZ">Arduino
IOT seems very simple for us non coders š</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-NZ">Looking
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