ESP32: meet the ESP8266’s Big Brother

After the waves made in the wireless world by the ESP8266, we can now expect a tsunami caused by its big brother, the ESP32. Along with a dual-core processor, it has onboard Bluetooth, more RAM, and IO extensions. The ESP32 can be programmed with the Arduino IDE. Later this year, Elektor Magazine will also write about the native development tool IDF. For the time being and for you, Elektor soldered the castellated/edge-plated ESP32 module on a breakout-board which easily fits in all your experiments on breadboards and elsewhere.

After the waves made in the wireless world by the ESP8266, we can now expect a tsunami caused by its big brother, the ESP32. Along with a dual-core processor, it has onboard Bluetooth, more RAM, and IO extensions. The ESP32 can be programmed with the Arduino IDE. Later this year, Elektor Magazine will also write about the native development tool IDF.
For the time being and for you, Elektor soldered the castellated/edge-plated ESP32 module on a breakout-board which easily fits in all your experiments on breadboards and elsewhere.
The ready-to-use assembled BoB is available in your shop, where you can also purchase the bare ESP32 module separately.

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Discussion (2 comments)

Blue bird 7 years ago

I switched from the esp8266 to the esp32. In all perspective the esp32 is better. Not sure if Arduino is the right ide since the esp32 is multicore and development is multithreaded. It's a different approach. Therefore I would definitely recommend the native Espressif idf with Eclipse IDE.

Joshua Caputo 7 years ago

I had a great time with the esp8266. I feel like Im catching the end of it's wave as we are moving toward better modules.

iI was able to put this together in just over an hour.

is the 32 going to require more hardware than the duino to program. I love that I could TX and rx flawlessly on my Uno.