It's very unlikely to be bricked (the only real way to brick an ESP32 is to turn on secure boot features and then lose the key, or really break the flash encryption config and then lose the key.) The jumbled output looks like two tasks printing to stdout from low-level code and talking over each ot...

(Using a dev board from elektrodragon.com.) I was trying to build/flash the wifi\smart_config example (after great success modifying/running the pcnt example. and building/running a few others.) All the build output looked normal, no errors reported. Flashing appeared to succeed. Here is the startup...