It’s been a while since I’ve posted – work and life have been busy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’ve been dabbling with the new ESP32-S3 DevKitC boards from Espressif<\/a> – I have the ESP32-S3-DevKitC-1-N8R2<\/a> (8MB flash, 2MB Quad SPI PSRAM) and hope to soon have the ESP32-S3-DevKitC-1-N8R8<\/a> as well (with 8MB flash and 8MB Octal SPI PSRAM).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Note that if you use the So far so interesting, as Espressif works to get the functionality in place<\/a> for the S3 as part of the upcoming ESP IDF 5.0. I’ve found that the ESP-IDF in Windows can be a little challenging to install and maintain when using the master branch (and the ESP-IDF Tools Installer<\/em> was outdated for this purpose), so I wrote a gist to help do that in a repeatable way<\/a>. Since the PSRAM handling is cutting-edge, only the code on the master branch currently supports it (as of this writing). You can read more about configuring the flash and PSRAM in the latest docs<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The other problem was getting things working with Python 3.10, the blocker being windows-curses. Fortunately, a new version of windows-curses was just released<\/a> so if you previously tried and failed to get past that step, it’s working now (in particular, And so it goes – I’ve now got a way to test out the latest and greatest ESP-IDF code as cleanly as I want, and long before Arduino-ESP32<\/a> will have full parity with it (I like the Arduino core, but I’m willing to revisit the IDF again for all this…. it’s certainly come a long way since the last time I used it years ago!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Other useful ESP32-S3 links:<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s been a while since I’ve posted – work and life have been busy! I’ve been dabbling with the new ESP32-S3 DevKitC boards from Espressif – I have the ESP32-S3-DevKitC-1-N8R2 […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[132,168,146,100,117],"class_list":["entry","author-marty","post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","tag-esp32","tag-esp32-s3","tag-espressif","tag-python","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.falatic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.falatic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.falatic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.falatic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.falatic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.falatic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.falatic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.falatic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.falatic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}-N8R8<\/code> device, the Octal SPI will use up a few extra GPIO pins (GPIO33 through GPIO37). However, it ought <\/em>to be pretty fast versus the older PSRAM implementations.<\/p>\n\n\n\nmenuconfig<\/code> will install with Python 3.10 now). As part of that effort I got to dust off my Windows application build skills, though ultimately someone else implemented the full solution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n