I’ve received 5x ESP32 (because, you know, STM is now pretty hard to get).
First evening: unpacked one, flashed MicroPython, sta_if.scan()… nothing. What? It sees something only if very close to the router. Panicked, installed Arduino (no!!!!), flashed… nothing. It was late…
The next day, unpacked the other four, flashed Arduino WiFiScan. And everything works! Whaaaaat? Time to get my flatiron hot, and open this shield!
Do you see the problem?
Even without any contact to the antenna, everything shielded, it was “only” 40dB worse than proper ones.
It was crazy to connect via WiFi and use WebREPL to send the commands directly to this thing, and with interpreter running on ESP32 see how the led blinks.
Is this the future?
Tried uPy, got the web-PWM example running, but it wanted with every start to flash the image again… So, now installed VScode + pymakr + micropy-cli + linter & IntelliSense. Pure magic.
I still don’t know what to do with this thing, but this is sooo interesting, I can’t stop playing with it.
But the weather was so nice, and I haven’t ridden my bike for a very long time…
Beautiful!