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I'm doing a hardware selection and after much consideration, I'm picking a 3$ esp8266. I don't see any purpose of Arduino outside education for kids. Makers sh
by embeddedpro 7y ago
I'm doing a hardware selection and after much consideration, I'm picking a 3$ esp8266.
I don't see any purpose of Arduino outside education for kids. Makers should use cheaper products/knockoffs at worse.
- magicalhippo 7y agoThe ESP8266 doesn't have hardware PWM, and only a single ADC channel, both which can make it unfit for a lot of tasks. That said, it does come with a lot of SRAM and the wifi/bt connectivity is obviously great.
- opencl 7y agoThe only very slightly more expensive ESP32 boards have 18 ADC channels, 16 PWM channels, and 2 DAC channels.
- magicalhippo 7y agoYeah the ESP32 is pretty darn awesome.
- spookthesunset 7y ago> The ESP8266 doesn't have hardware PWM There are actually hacky ways to work around that using DMA but yeah. Software PWM sucks.
- penagwin 7y agoI recommend trying the ESP32 as well (more pins for ADC and a few other features). Either way, the ESP's are an incredible value (I use both).
- _alex_ 7y agoSame. I have a bin full of esp8266's that have become my go-to for little projects. Going to play with esp32's when I run through them