bdring’s new universal CNC controller for Grbl_ESP32 , that is available on Github: The blog post details a new CNC controller I designed. I have probably designed 40-50 different controllers over the years, but this one has me really excited. My past controllers were generally application specific. My recent controllers have all been for the […]
Tag Archives: ESP32
ESP32 Atari 1020 controller
bdring writes, “My Atari 1020 Pen Plotter retrofit project is done. My project for the month of October (#inktober) was to convert a 35 year old Atari 1020 to Grbl_ESP32 control. My goal was to not change, modify or add any parts other than the controller. “ More details on Buildlog.Net blog.
ESP32 LoRa sensor monitoring with web server (Long Range Communication)
Rui Santos posted detailed instructions of how to build an ESP32 LoRa sensor monitoring with web server: In this project, you’ll build a sensor monitoring system using a TTGO LoRa32 SX1276 OLED board that sends temperature, humidity and pressure readings via LoRa radio to an ESP32 LoRa receiver. The receiver displays the latest sensor readings […]
Open source FTDI FT2232 JTAG and UART Adapter board
Erich Styger writes: In JTAG Debugging the ESP32 with FT2232 and OpenOCD I have used a FTDI FT2232 breakout board to JTAG debug with OpenOCD. With an adapter board on top of the FTDI FT2232 the wiring is much easier and simpler to use. More details at mcuoneclipse.com
JTAG debugging the ESP32 with FT2232 and OpenOCD
Erich Styger has written an article on how to use an inexpensive FTDI evaluation board as JTAG debug interface to debug ESP32 based devices: In “Eclipse JTAG Debugging the ESP32 with a SEGGER J-Link” I used a SEGGER J-Link to debug an ESP32 device with JTAG. I looked at using one of the FTDI FT2232HL […]
A self-expanding ESP32 PWM board
Eric Gunnerson writes: I’ve been working on a little ESP32 expansion board/shield for an LED project I’ve been working on. One of the nice things about the ESP32 is that it has a peripheral known as “LED control” that provides 16 independent channels of PWM for controlling LED brightness, and my project uses that capability. […]
Building and Flashing ESP32 applications with Eclipse
Erich Styger shared the steps how to use Eclipse with CMake: The current Espressif documentation integrating with Eclipse are kind of broken and did not work for me (they are changing from make files to use CMake). The good news is that I have found a way to easily integrate the IDF with Eclipse which […]
Open source hardware ESP32-ADF
Here’s an open source hardware development board for Espressif audio development framework, the ESP32-ADF, from Olimex: With ESP32-WROOM-B module with 8MB RAM and 4MB of Flash, two microphones, two 3W speakers, codec, amplifier, Lipo charger, USB with programming, Audio 3.5mm jack, ESP32-ADF board offers everything you need to start playing with Espressif Audio Development Framework. Check […]
ESP32 DHT11/DHT22 web server – Temperature and humidity using Arduino IDE
A how-to on building an asynchronous ESP32 web server with the DHT11 or DHT22 that displays temperature and humidity using Arduino IDE. More details on Random Nerd Tutorials. Check out the video after the break.
Polar Coaster drawing machine
Barton Dring designed and built a Polar Coaster drawing machine to draw custom, round drink coasters: I recently decided to update the Polar Coaster project. The primary reason was to update the controller to use Grbl_ESP32 firmware. I also thought I could make it smaller, lighter and remove a little cost. The old controller was […]
New 2.5D pen/laser ESP32 controller
Bdring published a new build: I have done several pen and laser machines lately, so I decided to create a custom PCB for Grbl_ESP32 for these types of machines. This is a small (70mm x 60mm) PCB with all the features a pen plotter or laser cutter/engraver would need. These typically use stepper motors for […]
Grbl_ESP32 development board version 3.1
A board to control your CNC machine with Grbl_ESP32 designed by Bart Dring, that is available on GitHub: This is a Grbl_ESP32 CNC Development board. This is a quick and easy way to use and test CNC on the ESP32 controller. Grbl is a great CNC firmware that has been around for nearly a decade. […]
uMesh – A self-contained, battery operated ESP32 module
Jarrett published a new build: I’ve been working on an ESP32 module. Part of the problem I’ve been seeing with inexpensive IoT dev boards, is that the design around the power system hasn’t been very good. Here’s my attempt to fix that. This is a battery-ready module with a proper lithium battery charge circuit, lithium […]
ESP32 AM radio transmitter
A how-to on making a simple AM radio transmitter using the ESP32 microcontroller by Bitluni: AM Radio transmissions are based on a carrier signal which is modulated by the audio signal. It’s a very basic principle but prone to noise from the environment. Using the ESP32 it is really simple to generate an analog signal […]
Grbl_ESP32 CNC development board
Bart Dring has designed a development board for using CNC on Grbl ESP32: This is a Grbl_ESP32 CNC Development board. This is a quick and easy way to use and test CNC on the ESP32 controller. Grbl is a great CNC firmware that has been around for nearly a decade. It was originally designed for […]
ESP32 with multiple DS18B20 temperature sensors
Guide to ESP32 with multiple DS18B20 temperature sensors from Random Nerd Tutorials: This guide shows how to read temperature from multiple DS18B20 temperature sensors with the ESP32 using Arduino IDE. We’ll show you how to wire the sensors on the same data bus to the ESP32, install the needed libraries, and a sketch example you can […]
EEPROM rotation for ESP8266 and ESP32
Xose Pérez over at Tinkerman writes: The Arduino Core for ESP8266 and ESP32 uses one SPI flash memory sector to emulate an EEPROM. When you initialize the EEPROM object (calling begin) it reads the contents of the sector into a memory buffer. Reading a writing is done over that in-memory buffer. Whenever you call commit […]
Alexa (Echo) with ESP32 and ESP8266 – Voice controlled relay
Rui Santos writes, “In this project, you’re going to learn how to control the ESP8266 or the ESP32 with voice commands using Alexa (Amazon Echo Dot). As an example, we’ll control two 12V lamps connected to a relay module. We’ll also add two 433 MHz RF wall panel switches to physically control the lamps.” More […]
Game audio for the ESP32
ESP32 game audio at Buildlog.Net blog: I have been working on some games for the ESP32 and needed some decent quality audio with a minimum number of additional components. I was bouncing between using the DAC and using the I2S bus. The DAC requires less external parts, so I went that way. I ended up […]
ESP32lights
Luca Dentella published a new build: Today’s project, ESP32lights, is a smart device based on the esp32 chip. Thanks to ESP32lights you can turn a load on and off (I used it for my christmas lights) manually based on daily schedules based on the light intensity ESP32lights connects to your wifi network, can be configured […]