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Re:Arduino Goes Pro at CES 2020 by magicalhippo on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @01:11PM (#21982712)
The 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.

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Re:Arduino Goes Pro at CES 2020 by opencl on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @01:26PM (#21982901)
The only very slightly more expensive ESP32 boards have 18 ADC channels, 16 PWM channels, and 2 DAC channels.
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Re:Arduino Goes Pro at CES 2020 by magicalhippo on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @01:39PM (#21983072)
Yeah the ESP32 is pretty darn awesome.
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Re:Arduino Goes Pro at CES 2020 by spookthesunset on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @05:11PM (#21985623)
> The ESP8266 doesn't have hardware PWM

There are actually hacky ways to work around that using DMA but yeah. Software PWM sucks.

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