Summary

Raspberry Pi boards have gotten expensive, so I found a cheap alternative in a tiny ESP32-S3 board. They say that necessity is the mother of invention, and the skyrocketing prices of Raspberry Pi boards have definitely been the kick in the pants that I’ve needed to look at cheaper, perhaps also better-suited, alternatives. I mean, the Pi is a great board , but for a lot of applications I’ve used it for over the almost 15 years that they’ve been around, it’s also been overkill.

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