The Wemos/LOLIN D1 Mini is one of the easiest ESP8266 boards to use because it combines a 4 MB ESP8266 module, USB programming, 3.3 V regulation and breadboard-friendly headers in a very small board. For most projects, the best GPIOs…

The ESP-01 and ESP-01S are tiny ESP8266 Wi-Fi modules with only eight pins, but they can run complete Arduino, MQTT and simple ESPHome projects without another microcontroller. The two easiest user GPIOs are GPIO0 and GPIO2, although both are also…

Choose the ESP32-C6 if the project needs Zigbee, Thread, Matter-over-Thread or the more complete smart-home feature set. It combines 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi 6 and BLE with an IEEE 802.15.4 radio, 512 KB HP SRAM and a separate 20 MHz low-power…

ESP32-C5 vs ESP32-S3 compared: choose C5 for 5 GHz Wi-Fi, Zigbee and Thread; choose S3 for dual-core speed, USB, cameras, displays and AI.

The ESP32-C6 SuperMini is one of the smallest ways to get Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth LE, Zigbee and Thread in an ESP32 project. On the common SuperMini layout, the easiest GPIOs to start with are GPIO0, GPIO1, GPIO2, GPIO3, GPIO14, GPIO20,…

ESP32-C3 vs ESP32-C6 compared: choose C6 for Wi-Fi 6, Zigbee, Thread and Matter; choose C3 for simpler low-cost Wi-Fi/BLE projects.

ESP32-C5 vs ESP32-C6 compared for 5 GHz Wi-Fi, CPU speed, RAM, Zigbee, Thread, Bluetooth, power and ESPHome. See which chip fits your project.