This beginner guide explains a typical ESP32 BLE beacon scanner sketch: how scanning works, what RSSI means, how to detect iBeacon/Eddystone (or any BLE advertising packet), and how to filter by MAC address, UUID, or name. You’ll also learn the…
This beginner guide explains Espressif’s ArduinoOTA example for ESP32. You’ll learn what OTA is, how the ESP32 advertises itself on your network, how the upload works in Arduino IDE, what each callback means (start/progress/end/error), and the most common fixes when…
This beginner guide explains how to wire a pushbutton to an ESP32 and use it to control an LED. You’ll learn what digitalRead() returns, why pinMode() matters, and how to avoid the most common beginner issue: a floating input (random…
This beginner guide explains the famous Blink sketch line-by-line on an ESP32/Arduino board. You’ll learn what setup() and loop() do, how pinMode() works, what HIGH/LOW really mean, and why delay(1000) makes the LED blink once per second (plus fixes if…
The ESP-01 (and ESP-01S) is the smallest, most annoying, and most misunderstood ESP8266 module. It can be incredibly useful (Wi-Fi bridge, tiny sensor node, UART→Wi-Fi device), but only if you wire it correctly and respect its boot pins. This guide…
The ESP8266 is the chip that kicked off the Wi-Fi microcontroller revolution. Even today it’s still a great choice for simple IoT devices: cheap, small, and supported everywhere. But it has quirks (boot pins, one ADC input, weak power rails…
The ESP32-DevKitC V4 is the “classic ESP32” dev board most tutorials assume. But the internet is full of half-truths: pinout posters without context, ADC guides ignoring Wi-Fi conflicts, and “use GPIO0” recipes that break boot. This guide is meant to…
The ESP32-S3-DevKitC-1 has a lot of GPIOs, but not every pin is equally convenient to use. Some pins affect boot, some are shared with native USB or debugging, and GPIO35–37 may be unavailable depending on the flash and PSRAM configuration…
The ESP32-S2-DevKitC-1 is Espressif’s entry-level development board for the ESP32-S2 – a single-core Wi-Fi microcontroller with native USB, 43 GPIOs, ADC, DAC, touch, and a rich set of peripherals. This guide focuses on pinout and GPIO selection for the DevKitC-1,…
Everything you need, zero assumptions, no missing steps This guide gets you from new board → first working program in the simplest and shortest way possible. 1. What You Need Use these items: No breadboard or extra parts needed for…