ESP32-CAM programmer from Bitluni

I've got a bunch of ESP32-CAM camera modules and made myself a little breakout a while back as they need a separate FTDI to program. One of the Youtubers I subscribe to came up with a nicer breakout which includes an auto-reset circuit for only $10 on Tindie so I've replaced my scratchbuilt thing with one.

Strongly recommended if you're going to mess about with these boards.

ESP32-VGA board from Bitluni

There's been a ton of work done by various people to make the ESP32 do things nobody ever really expected. One of those is to output quite decent VGA video.

In principle this is done with just some resistor ladders but building a board to do this is a bit fiddly so I've just picked up one from Bitluni on Tindie.

I don't have an immediate use for this but the vague plan is to use it as some kind of display interface that speaks to my mesh network kit. Connect a PS/2 keyboard and you've got a terminal device based on a microcontroller, rather than using a Raspberry Pi as a bit of middleware and this appeals to me greatly.