Alright!
Seems that now that I am out of the confines of my last project (who made DShot and drone ESCs so damn uncooperative :S), things have been moving very smoothly!
As of today, I've already ordered enough components for 4 whole Lasertag sets off of DigiKey, with the PCBs following shortly, courtesy of Aisler.
If you want your own, you can find them right here:
https://aisler.net/Xasin/xasworks-lzrtagpcb/mainboard-esp32
The whole thing has turned out a little more pricey than expected, with about 50€ worth of hardware per set, but this does include all sensors, batteries, speakers, etc., so it is a price I can accept!
Anyhow, enough talking, let's have a few pictures rolling in~
The new board is a thing of beauty - and not just because the first revision was pretty nice~
It features a self-programming setup instead of RST and GPIO0 push buttons (which turned out to be pretty annoying to use), a much bigger regulator than the previous version, as well as a thicker supply capacitor near the ESP32 to prevent WiFi Brownout at higher power.
We also have the MAX audio amp on-board now (though soldering a breakout board on is easy), a LSM6DS3 IMU to play hot potato with your device or detect crashes, and a beautiful new navigation switch to change your weapon selection mid-game. That's right, you can have your SMG AND a pistol!
Or ... Well, whatever.
There's also a little more protection like resistors to the external cable and a 3.3V ESD diode to make these boards tough as nails, and let's hope the new battery charge IC does not blow up like the previous ones did :S
Also, fun little side-note:
The ESP32's GPIO pins are now 100% maxed out!
Buuut I bet you can squeeze in more pins if you're smart enough ... Somehow <.<
For now we don't need any of that - and if we do, we use a I2C expander :P
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