ESP32-S3 First Look + Specs!

I have an ESP32-S3 in my hand!!! Well it's now actually on my bench :)
In this video I'll show you a real life early sample ESP32-S3 and go over the specs and see if I can get it to blink an LED!
#ESP32S3 #ESP32-S3 #firstlook

I only just got this board, so I'll be spending a lot more time with it over the next few weeks, including an attempt to port MicroPython to it!!!!!!

On with the show...

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[CaptZenPetabyte]

This new S3 will be the answer to some of the projects I have been interested in doing but the S2 was just not quite there for what I wanted to do... will open up a new world. Thanks for the first look!

[Clark-Mills]

0:57 The currently installed ULP (Ultra Low-power Processor) is a Finite State Machine but in the S3 it's being supplemented with a RISC-V ULP. The RISC-V is a free/open specification instruction set CPU which is being picked up by many companies. In the S3, you select which ULP is enabled. I suspect the RISC-V will replace the FSM in time but they're both there for now. It would be wonderful if the RISC-V became the default core throughout; one base instruction set to rule them all. [Edit:The ESP32-C3 is a RISC-V chip.]

[Mailmartinviljoen]

What would be super cool is if they could split the radio and bt chips and then have the ability to access BT only using the ulp co processor in deep sleep mode, then only can it truly be classified as BLE. That way you will have a way to wake it up from a bt connection.

[Chickey]

Thankyou for the little preview, looking forward to seeing them in the wild :-)

[pd]

Very cool. And the dirty little secret you could have plugged your led directly to ground without resistor at all. Set pin high, go to bed, wake up the next day, look at your led. Worlds slowest blowing led 😁

[ProtoG]

Very cool, thank you for taking the time to make the video!

[mairswartz]

Thanks Seon, I'm very excited about this new chip and looking forward to using it.

[CraigHollabaugh]

Espressif picked the best hardware developer to showoff their ESP32-S3. Thanks UM.

[williamhart]

That's a impressive little board nice of expressif to let you play with it first and show it off to youtube .

[divingquokka]

"Here I am, brain the size of a planet, flashing an LED".

[SirEngelmann]

i am most looking forward to the SDIO Interface. Have a project in mind with high I/O count (-> ESP32-S2), but the missing SD Card Interface on the ESP32-S2 is not letting me do it. Thank you for the short preview!

[ryanmcgee]

Kinda disappointed they didn't bring back the 16 pwm channels, but I'm excited that bluetooth is back!

[IowaMan]

just got mine today with a lilygo screen, i love this board o_o

[rpavlik]

Snazzy, Espressif is really on a roll!

[akmaldiable]

Nice, can't wait for the release.

[danwhiffen]

Don’t even bother looking for it, there’s really no ESP32-S3 available anywhere in Tuscany! Oh Seinfeld, you touch everything...

[folknology]

Cool Seon, great that you get to play with their new silicon. I would love to know what those Co-Processors can do and how they work, it would be great to see that on a video sometime soon..

[TheBlackstealth]

Looks like this is the replacement for the esp32 and the s2 is the replacement for the 8266!

[rdp]

Great By the way I noticed your microscope. Is that fairly new? If you don't mind which one did you get? Looks like the autofocus sony cmos camera by Eakins? but which Microscope did you get?

[PedroMinatel]

That's awesome! Thanks for sharing!