Cheap YD ESP32-S3 board review.

In this video we check-out a Chinese ESP32-S3-DevKitC-1 clone. We get it set up in PlatformIO creating a new Board file etc. This board has two USB-C ports one for uploading code and for serial monitor use, and an other which can be used for USB Device or USB Host OTG Mode. I will use it for the upcoming ESP32 Adventures series where we investigate how to use each function of an ESP32-S3 board.

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[davidville]

I am currently working on a senior design project and decided to use the ESP32 S3. I bought a couple of these third party esp32 s3s and have been struggling with them. Especially since there isn't much information on them. This video has explain so much about the board. Thank you so much!

[wretchedrichard]

Thank you for your time and effort. I'd looked far and wide online for this information and pleased I found your tutorial. I've got the same board and very much a novice so this has been helpful, thanks again.

[wasdaletimelapse]

Thank you so much for this video. I have just bought three of these dev boards yesterday and I have been struggling to find how to get them to do anything. As you stated there is not a lot of information out there. I followed your code example and I managed to get the flashing rgb led as you show. Thanks for sharing.

[peterthinks]

Could you upload the code you used to blink the on board neopixle somewhere please? Thanks for the video. I was wondering how to get the LED to blink.

[Marc_Wolfe]

"Deneyap Kart G" When connected to native USB. If it falsely reported as an S3 when it's really a C3, I wonder if that would explain it complaining about an I2S pin mapping being invalid. Using simple tone demo. I've only gotten the bluetooth scanner example to cooperate so far. Of course, if i select C3, i get told that's the wrong board. At the very least, it's half-assed. Verbatm error is "E (7) I2S: i2s_set_pin(295): ws_io_num invalid" Sounds like LR clock pin.

[chanwhun]

Can I ask where did you get the json file for yd esp32 s3?

[Marc_Wolfe]

I selected a bunch of lossely educated guesses to get anything to work. Erase all flash before programming, OSPI, 16MB, 115200 upload speed, maybe something else. I'm a noob with a general idea of some things.

[lucasianii]

Hi Sir thanks for the video,
Can I ask please, which pin numbers are for i2c and SDA?

[SnaiderBG]

Have you tried flashing using tsp-prog JTAG?

[edingcnc]

Did you create a Bluetooth HID keyboard with this that works with windows 11?
I ask because I tried using the BleKeyboard library that is already in platformIO and it works well with android devices but unfortunately not with windows 11.
May be something in this library is not setup right for windows 11.
I am trying to make a macro keyboard (foot pedal) to control the VLC video app for mt guitar lessons.
I hope you can help me to get it working on my ESP32-S3-DevKitC-1-N16R8V.
And if I can't get the bluetooth to work with Windows 11, i will have to the USB HID keyboard route may be you can help me with that too. Do you have minimal examples that sends some keystrokes for this board (USB and bluetooth)?
I would greatly appreciate it.

[Zigonce]

Hey, I have the same board and can't find it in the board selection dropdown menu of ArduinoIDE

[baudneo]

I have one, with the 5v out bridge soldered closed. It only outputs 4.7V. extremely disappointing.

[yes_man_lol]

do we need to solder the RGB icon on the board to make RGB LED works? do you have code of this esp32s3 RGB LED works?

[MAIDULISLAM-eiqk]

Hi, so while I was flashing the device, I am constantly getting this error:
2-sync fail
tips: please refer to the chip datasheet and confirm that strapping pin's status is correct.

how can I solve this problem. TIA

[emrebaser]

Thank you for the video. I have the exact same board, but it seems the I2C functionality is missing, I am using pin 21 for SDA and pin 19 for SCL.
I always get the output no I2C device found. Just wanted to ask if I am missing something.

[snister]

are you using a can and a string to record the audio?

[Fahimhossain]

Pls make e make for this board in arduino ide😢🥹