Ok I'm back! I received the board a few days ago, got the power supply, LEDs and the USB to UART converter working. I had a fight with the Micro USB port, so its a little crispy ;) , but I got it to work eventually. But the chip still doesn't work, I sometimes get something back on the RX line but E...

Thanks for the tip, but I already have made the board, plus the MCP2221 (USB to UART Converter) should work fine and I don't need auto reset.

Thank you so much for your help!
I'm just going to make it now, I don't really care anymore about antenna or a reset button, I just want the chip to work normally.

Design aside, do you have any suggestions with the soldering or anything else?

Hello there! Please make sure your EFUSE values are set properly: EFUSE_DIS_USB_JTAG = 0 EFUSE_DIS_PAD_JTAG = 0 EFUSE_STRAP_JTAG_SEL=1 Setting these "should" make sure that you can set the GPIO3 Strapping pin. You could also permanently set it to External JTAG using: EFUSE_DIS_USB_JTAG = 1 EFUSE_DIS...

Whoops forgot to include the files:

Whelp screw it, i'm going to design another board, the test did not work although something happened. The regulator died randomly but before that, I saw some activity on the Uart Tx pin on my USB to Uart adapter, maybe meaning the test would of worked if I hadn’t done so much with the chip? Anyways,...

Ok! I'm back! Sorry for the delay. I have lots of projects to work on and so it took me a while to get back to this project. After soldering the 10k Ohm resistor on to the board I realized that I don't have any extra 1uF caps lying around, so I wonder if I can do the following: 1. Desolder the 10k O...

You're absolutely right! I need to take out the reset switch and put in the 1 UF Capacitor to create the RC Circuit! I'll do that in a bit... Yeah, although, my board is less crunchy than the previous prototype. :shock: Yes the pins always read the correct voltage, I've been tested that since day 1....

Hello there! Thanks for responding! I'm honestly really new to ESP and PCB design but I have plenty of experience with stm32 and Kicad (weird but true). Here are my files: ESPUSB_sch.pdf ESPUSB_PCB.pdf I honestly want to note that this could also be a soldering error or the fact I bought the chip fr...

Hello All, I would like to thank anyone in advance for helping me solve my problems, if you can. ;) Recently I had tried to create my first PCB using the ESP32 S3 but in my smarts, I decided to not use the module but instead use the chip directly, which was the start of my problems. Then after desig...