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Sep 11, 2026
Kristina PanosHOST
To that end, Bren Polly created a couple of virtual pets whose lives depend on his ability to keep from doomscrolling.
Kristina PanosHOST
These ESP32-based companions live in cute 3D printed enclosures, One is a friendly cup of coffee, and the other is the oft-cited BMO from Adventure Time.
Kristina PanosHOST
Now, one aspect I'm not sure that I personally endorse is the use of an LLM here, which has access to screen time spent and notifications.
Kristina PanosHOST
It also runs a whisper model linked to a microphone inside the pets, so he can get the gist of notifications without looking at the phone.
BenjaminHOST
Never mind, it's going to be going through the notes there.
BenjaminHOST
A couple of weeks ago, we mentioned that the Espressif folks were working on lining up QEMU support for their ESP32 boards.
BenjaminHOST
So I think I would need to look it up.
BenjaminHOST
It was ESP32, the S3, the C3, the C6, So it's a bunch of, I mean, yeah, it's the RISC-V based one, the Extensa based one.
BenjaminHOST
And it's now like easy basically to, you build for an expressive dev kit C, whatever, and you can target the key new variant and easily sort of like run the code in an emulated environment.
BenjaminHOST
I haven't looked how much surfaces into Zephyr at this point in time, but if I remember correctly, they were emulating slash mocking quite a lot of the peripherals.
Jason SnellPANELIST
The difference with this one is that it's got a touchscreen and it's got a backlight, so you can read it in the dark or in poorly lit conditions, which is great.
Jason SnellPANELIST
It is incredibly long battery life because, of course, it's an ESP32 and E-Ink doesn't really use a lot of battery.
Jason SnellPANELIST
And...
Jason SnellPANELIST
One of the problems with a lot of these gadgets is that the software has been really bad on them, but now there is an excellent piece of open source software called Crosspoint Reader.
Jason SnellPANELIST
How? For $100.
Jason SnellPANELIST
I
Leo LaporteHOST
should just mention, I have now so many ESP32 devices.
Leo LaporteHOST
I know, right? Because it's very programmable.
Jason SnellPANELIST
The difference with this one is that it's got a touchscreen and it's got a backlight, so you can read it in the dark or in poorly lit conditions, which is great.
Jason SnellPANELIST
It is incredibly long battery life because, of course, it's an ESP32 and E-Ink doesn't really use a lot of battery.
Jason SnellPANELIST
And...
Jason SnellPANELIST
One of the problems with a lot of these gadgets is that the software has been really bad on them, but now there is an excellent piece of open source software called Crosspoint Reader.
Jason SnellPANELIST
Amazing product.
Jason SnellPANELIST
How? For
Leo LaporteHOST
$100? I should just mention, I have now so many ESP32 devices.
Leo LaporteHOST
I know, right? Because it's very programmable.
Mikey SklarPANELIST
So the first two are both Zephyr CircuitPython builds.
Mikey SklarPANELIST
And then the ESP32-C5, this is our first 5 gigahertz board.
Mikey SklarPANELIST
So it has 5 gigahertz Wi-Fi.
Mikey SklarPANELIST
And it's got one PR out of three merged.
Chris PersonGUEST
Ooh.
Chris PersonGUEST
And, uh, but like, so, so I will say to give a little background extinct, like the XCX four was like, It's like basically what's known as an – it's got an ESP32 in it.
Chris PersonGUEST
ESP32, if you don't know, is like a $10 micro – like a chip that people use for smart home stuff.
Chris PersonGUEST
Tinkers love it because it has Wi-Fi in it and it can play Doom.
Chris PersonGUEST
You know, all the basic stuff you need.
Chris PersonGUEST
And the company Seed Studio, which does a lot of IOT devices, just said, hey, why don't we just lean in on that? Because we're already selling because they sell.
Chris PersonGUEST
I actually have some on my desk.
Chris PersonGUEST
Zhao, which is like a. like three for 20 ESP32 chip that you can use in your little hacking projects and your keyboards.
JeremyHOST
Is there some way we could just, like, hack a hole into it and just, like, figure it out anyway? Now, knowing what I know now, yes, I think we could.
JeremyHOST
With, like, between Claude and ESP32.
JeremyHOST
Dude, there's...
JeremyHOST
We could add a secondary control system with an ESP32 that you could run with a mobile app on your phone that you just connect to that as a local wireless network.
JeremyHOST
You would lose data on your phone because you'd be, like, seeking that out Wi-Fi.
JeremyHOST
But Claude can make so many ESP32 web apps that you just run up.
JeremyHOST
You have to make the interface off your phone.
JeremyHOST
Oh, yeah, you could have a complete secondary system that somebody can independently control.
PhilHOST
Now look, I'm going to tell you straight up, I don't care.
PhilHOST
Unless you're buying generic hardware, right? Like a random ESP32 board, right? Where it's not specifically a signing device.
PhilHOST
It's just an ESP32 board.
PhilHOST
Sure, you order that crap off of Amazon.
PhilHOST
I don't disagree with that at all.
Aaron de VisserGUEST
Yeah, that's cool.
Aaron de VisserGUEST
So, you know, you can interface Arduinos, like ESP32 microcontrollers with e-paper screens or like an OLED if you really wanted to and essentially create your own app on a microcontroller and you could stick that to the side of your gun.
MaxwellHOST
Just have wind calls spat out to you the entire time.
Aaron de VisserGUEST
100%, yeah.
Jonathan HallHOST
You don't need to do soldering.
Jonathan HallHOST
I mean, you can, but I have an ESP32.
Jonathan HallHOST
You can't see it.
Jonathan HallHOST
It's just off screen here.
Jonathan HallHOST
It's hanging on my wall.
Jonathan HallHOST
I don't need TinyGo for it for what I intend to use it for, but I could put TinyGo on there.
Jonathan HallHOST
And I'm trying to find a reason to install TinyGo on an ESP32.
Jonathan HallHOST
I'm
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