ESP32: pinout, specs and Arduino IDE configuration – Part 1

ESP32 details

I like this device It’s very powerful and low cost with an effective value WIFI microcontroller.

You can find It here ESP32 Dev Kit v1 - TTGO T-Display 1.14 ESP32 - NodeMCU V3 V2 ESP8266 Lolin32 - NodeMCU ESP-32S - WeMos Lolin32 - WeMos Lolin32 mini - ESP32-CAM programmer - ESP32-CAM bundle - ESP32-WROOM-32 - ESP32-S

Specs

Remember that exist a lot of variant of this device, some have a specified killer function, so this is a generic specs description.

• Processors:
  • CPU: Xtensa dual-core (or single-core) 32-bit LX6 microprocessor, operating at 160 or 240 MHz and performing at up to 600 DMIPS
  • Ultra low power (ULP) co-processor
• Memory: 520 KiB SRAM
• Wireless connectivity:
  • Wi-Fi: 802.11 b/g/n
  • Bluetooth: v4.2 BR/EDR and BLE (shares the radio with Wi-Fi)
• Peripheral interfaces:
  • 12-bit SAR ADC up to 18 channels
  • 2 × 8-bit DACs
  • 10 × touch sensors (capacitive sensing GPIOs)
  • 4 × SPI
  • 2 × I²S interfaces
  • 2 × I²C interfaces
  • 3 × UART
  • SD/SDIO/CE-ATA/MMC/eMMC host controller
  • SDIO/SPI slave controller
  • Ethernet MAC interface with dedicated DMA and IEEE 1588 Precision Time Protocol support
  • CAN bus 2.0
  • Infrared remote controller (TX/RX, up to 8 channels)
  • Motor PWM
  • LED PWM (up to 16 channels)
  • Hall effect sensor
  • Ultra low power analog pre-amplifier
• Security:
  • IEEE 802.11 standard security features all supported, including WFA, WPA/WPA2 and WAPI
  • Secure boot
  • Flash encryption
  • 1024-bit OTP, up to 768-bit for customers
  • Cryptographic hardware acceleration: AES, SHA-2, RSA, elliptic curve cryptography (ECC), random number generator (RNG)
• Power management:
  • Internal low-dropout regulator
  • Individual power domain for RTC
  • 5μA deep sleep current
  • Wake up from GPIO interrupt, timer, ADC measurements, capacitive touch sensor interrupt

Pinouts

This device is very powerfull, you can see that there are a capacitive touch pins, more than one UART various Analog pin.

How to

You must download drivers for USB chip, probably you have an esp32 version with cp2102, but exist variant with ch340 chip.

Than you must configure your Arduino IDE

Add the boards to Arduino IDE

First you must add esp32 url descriptor to your IDE
https://dl.espressif.com/dl/package_esp32_index.json
Go to File –> Preferences and add the url on “Additional Boards Manager URLs”

Than you must add new board in Boards Manager

The boards to select is esp32

Select correct board

Now you can select (if you have like me that model) the ESP32 Dev Module

Now you can upload your sketch.

Thanks

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