OK, so for some reason unknown to me, the problem appears to have resolved itself. I figured I should check one more time after having gotten back on the horse with ESP-IDE instead of vsCode. The problem was still there in vsCode when I tried; I then disabled the ESP-IDF extension and interestingly ...

Thanks for your insights; yes, I have considered a clean vsCode install, but I'm hesitant because I do not in fact only use it for ESP-IDF. All the other extensions work fine and I'd rather not start over only to find in a few weeks'/months' time that I have to fix a broken dependency chain before I...

I've used ESP-IDF under VSCode successfully for a few months. After a one-week hiatus, I came back to my projects and find that the extension fails to launch for no clear reason. The behavior is that when opening an existing project folder or creating a new project, the VSCode window becomes unrespo...

OK, that was quicker than I anticipated. On the original board I did most testing with, there was a provision for a separate USB-UART bridge (a 'just in case' addition for prototyping) that I didn't end up using in the prototype. However, it did have traces for USB-D+ and D- routed to the unpopulate...

I like the coat hanger idea! The flux hypothesis surely would have shown up on poking around with a multimeter - if it were low impedance enough to be a significant problem, which I find hard to believe to begin with. It's odd; my experience with other USB devices echoes yours, in that it'll pretty ...

Thanks so much for your answer and your suggestions for trouble-shooting. They make perfect sense; I really should have tried the other computer already. I don't have a ready-made DevKit handy, but I could have (should have) ordered one. However...yesterday after posting this thread I did one 'final...

Hi all, I'm working on a board based on the ESP32-C3 WROOM module. On the board I designed and had manufactured, I have GPIO18 to USB-DN and GPIO19 do USB-DP. As far as I know this should be correct. When connecting the device, it shows up in the Window 10 device manager as an "Unknown USB Device (D...