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This requires skill with a soldering iron and knowledge of how the external and on-board antennas will be in conflict, resulting in very bad external antenna performance. The vendor needs to make this clear if such is or is not required in the product... Read More
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Quality
Bluetooth to ps3 controller works great , thats what i needed
This board and a second board i bought work extremely well with every arduino sketch i have used in them.
This is a hobbyist's chip, it is not designed for engineering projects that actually require specifications to be met.
Devices worked right out of the box with no surprises.
Price
The price on these is incredible for what you get.
It's a ~$8 microcontroller and you get what you pay for.
Buy this to experiment and learn with or just for the fun of it, but don't buy it expecting top notch performance for the price.
Competitiveness
The esp32-wroom-32u is a nifty module for projects and it is cheap and works great with the popular flipper zero as an alternat... Read More
You can pick up an antenna for the 32u for about $10 and it will have much more range than the oem module as well.
However, this revision uses an xtensa lx6 - which is a pain to get working compared to the risc-v revisions.
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external, port, serial, required and great. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
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- This product had a total of 34 reviews as of our last analysis date on Feb 29 2024.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
However this revision uses an xtensa lx6 which is a pain to get working compared to the riscv revisions
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Thats especially true for rust users riscv is fully supported after you run the single rustup installation command
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
However xtensa boards require an extensive setup which is unsuitable for beginners
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Afterward youll likely face weird undocumented problems that leave you running scripts for hours
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If you do end up with this version there are limited online resources to assist you
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The setup documentation isnt detailed and some pages are contradictory
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
As such i dont recommend this version of the board
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
As mentioned in the above headline the board is designed to be used with an external antenna for wifi usage
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