Re:TinyPICO – tiny fully-featured ESP32 board
by BoorishBears on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @05:50AM
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Are you being paid to write this?
* Those cheap ESP32 boards all implement the exact same transistor based reset for DTR/RTS, they all work with `idf.py monitor`
* There are many options for ESP32 dev boards with an entire external antenna
All that leaves is... the LDO? Brownouts are solved by power caps, or a shorter USB cable. Or providing external power over VIN. Is that really worth double the price?
Like, if you're shipping it in a product you're probably not using a dev board (I hope you're not)
If you're just developing a prototype or tinkering, this is just like Arduino boards. High price, questionable benefit.
If you need extremely low power usage, get a plain module and one of the breakouts that lets you choose the LDO.
* Those cheap ESP32 boards all implement the exact same transistor based reset for DTR/RTS, they all work with `idf.py monitor`
* There are many options for ESP32 dev boards with an entire external antenna
All that leaves is... the LDO? Brownouts are solved by power caps, or a shorter USB cable. Or providing external power over VIN. Is that really worth double the price?
Like, if you're shipping it in a product you're probably not using a dev board (I hope you're not)
If you're just developing a prototype or tinkering, this is just like Arduino boards. High price, questionable benefit.
If you need extremely low power usage, get a plain module and one of the breakouts that lets you choose the LDO.