Using MicroPython on FireBeetle ESP32

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Motivation In Fire Beetle ESP 32 Project I wrote about connecting the FireBeetle ESP32 with the Arduino IDE and writing a little C-style program. Another interesting approach is to use MicroPython. Installing MicroPython Install esptool To get MicroPython onto the board we use the esptool command line. Because we are in the Python ecosystem we…

Mailbox IoT ESP 32 Project

Electronics & IOT

Motivation Out of curiosity I bought a ESP32 board to tinker with, but for almost half a year hadn’t got an idea what to do with it… But then! Project Idea The idea: Every time I get mail into my physical snail mail mailbox, the mailbox shall send a message via Telegram to my smartphone:…