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ESP Breakout Arrived

A project log for ESPLux - Smarts for your downlights

A circuit you can place inline with your existing low voltage lights to allow for wireless control

mattMatt 04/07/2015 at 04:480 Comments

Sorry for the lack of updates. I had planned on making more breakouts, but I haven't had an opportunity.

In the meantime, my ESP breakout boards turned up from dirtyPCBs! I think they turned out pretty neat. In hindsight though, I probably should have put a status LED on them showing if power is on or not (I'm used to my ESP-01's that have an LED on them showing power) and should have put a cutout so that the signal wasn't interrupted by the ground plane on the board. I'm assuming the signal from underneath the board wouldn't be so crash hot. Doesn't matter though, its a test board. Overall, I am pretty happy with how it turned out. The measurements I found on the net were correct. I have checked that FTDI works fine, the FTDI Power jumper works fine, and the jumper block seems to be functioning fine. Also, injecting power from an external source is working fine too. If you would like to order one of the boards, just click here. If you want to see some more images of it, here is my imgur album. Next up, I plan on playing around with the power supply for it.

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