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Then the esp8266 came along, offering wifi and gpios and an arduino-like programming experience at a price point of literally $1

• myself248 5mo ago
  And the ESP32 is offering CPU power on par with many of the embedded-x86 SOCs that powered some of the early wifi routers...
  • ssl-3 5mo ago
    A $2 Chinese ESP32 dev board is more stout in many ways than the first Pentium machine I had, which sure did feel fast-enough to run the whole world with at that time. :) In this amazing world full of such inexpensive choices, it seems so bizarre to me to demonize any of them. They're all excellent in some way, and it's OK that there's more than one. This isn't football, handball, American politics, or Highlander: There can be more than one. It's OK.
    • pjmlp 5mo ago
      This is what I keep repeating in many threads about ESP32, the little thing is actually quite powerful, especially for those of us that experienced MS-DOS PCs.