An ESP32-S3 with a touchscreen, a battery and an enclosure - a project that is finished when the code works. Guide coming once we have the hardware.
Coming soon. This guide has not been written yet - the board is not in the club’s hands. What follows is what the CoreS3 SE is and what the tutorial will cover once we have one.
An ESP32-S3 in a finished enclosure. Rather than a bare board you wire onto a breadboard, the CoreS3 SE is a small plastic brick with a touchscreen on the front, a battery inside, and a stacking connector underneath for modules - the same chip as a development board, packaged as something you can hand to someone.
Specifications are from M5Stack’s published documentation and have not been verified against hardware by anyone here.
Every other board here needs a breadboard, a power supply, and a laptop nearby before it does anything a person can look at. This one has a screen and a battery, so a project on it is finished the moment the code works. For demos, for competitions, and for anything that has to leave the lab bench, that gap matters more than the specification does.
It also runs UIFlow, a block-based environment, alongside the normal Arduino and MicroPython routes - so it is a plausible first board for someone who has not written code before, which is not true of most ESP32 hardware.
M-Bus connector.When we get hardware - it is the alternative choice in the same DigiKey selection as the Arduino Uno Q. Until then, the ESP32 tutorial covers the same chip family on a plain development board, and everything in it applies here.