ESP32 (2) – The development environment

After having introduced, in the previous post, the ESP32 chip and the official development board by Espressif, today I’m going to show you how to install and use the official development environment. The official development framework for the ESP32 chip is published by Expressif on Github, with an opensource license (Apache 2.0) and named Espressif IoT Development Framework (shortly idf). To be…

ESP32 (1) – Introduction

You probably already know the esp8266wifi chip, made by Espressif. It appeared on some Chinese webstores in the middle of 2014 and in the beginning it was used as a “bridge” to connect microcontrollers (Arduino…) to wifi networks thanks to its very low cost (about 5$ for a module). Because of the original firmware was not well documented, it has…