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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.
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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


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    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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