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I think that ESP32 lacks a good ecosystem of small boards for small projects.

ESP32 boards tends to be too big for many applications and the lack of the stacking possibility,
the lack of shields, the lack of dual or triple base makes me choose ESP8266 on D1 Mini boards every new project.

D1 Mini single, dual and triple base are a must have...







I love those base. Are super awesome and super convenient for small projects,
they are very convenient even for soldering components on it.

With those boards you can stack components one on top of the other,
you have a ground plane without the needs of horrible soldering, you have a 5V and a 3.3V plane, and on dual or triple base
the PINs layout is repeated three times.

See how convenient they are:





Is there something this small and this convenient even for ESP32?

Try search for TinyPico, think you can find most of it, but the cost is a bit high.

For stacking options look at adafruit feather wings.

There is an esp32 D1 mini. Also m5nano if you don't need many pins

Agree007 wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 17, 2020 5:14 am

For stacking options look at adafruit feather wings.

Tiny pico is stupidly expensive, simple triple boards for it costs 7usd, more than an entire microcontroller from other sellers.

Adafruit feather could be an option but even there they costs an arm and a leg.
I will give adafruit a try thanks

If you think there is a lack in the ecosystem, then maybe you should make your own boards to fill that gap and make money.

username wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 17, 2020 9:42 pm

If you think there is a lack in the ecosystem, then maybe you should make your own boards to fill that gap and make money.

If I'm the only one with this concerns I would not make a lot of money from it