Hi everyone,
Celebrating the Dragon Boat Festival on 7–9 June is not the only reason we feel energetic and refreshed this week. More importantly, our new chip, ESP32-S2, will soon come out, as we have recently announced.
ESP32-S2 is a highly integrated, low-power microcontroller supporting 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi HT40 and having 43 GPIOs. Our new chip is based on an Xtensa single-core 32-bit LX7 processor that can be clocked up to 240MHz. With state-of-the-art power management, RF performance, IO capabilities and security features, ESP32-S2 is an ideal choice for smart-home applications, wearables and a wide variety of other IoT applications. In fact, the 240 MHz Xtensa core makes ESP32-S2 an optimal solution for building the most demanding IoT projects without requiring external MCUs.
By leveraging Espressif’s mature and production-ready IoT development framework (ESP-IDF), ESP32-S2 achieves excellent value for money, thus bringing faster and more secure IoT solutions to the market.
Engineering samples of the beta version of ESP32-S2 will become available towards the end of June 2019. For more information, please contact Espressif’s Business Support Department.
Other news you can read in this month’s newsletter include:
- the official inclusion of our ESP32-Azure IoT Kit in Microsoft’s Plug-and-Play program, which aims to bring extra ease to connecting IoT devices.
- a great event that AWS and Espressif put together on 4 June for the IoT community in the USA, which was about the development of IoT solutions.
- Espressif’s sponsorship of Pycom’s #GOINVENT worldwide series of workshops.
- a really cool project posted on hackster.io, which shows how you can create 8-bit tunes, using an ESP8266 development board.
Hope you enjoy reading this month’s newsletter. Keep sending us your messages and requests on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and YouTube. We respond to all of your messages as quickly as possible!
Best wishes,John Lee.Senior Customer Support Officer
Microsoft’s Plug-and-Play with the ESP32-Azure IoT Kit#
Espressif’s ESP32-Azure IoT Kit has been granted a certification that makes it an integral part of Microsoft’s Plug-and-Play program, which has been designed to bring the ease of “Plug and Play” to IoT devices. With Microsoft’s Plug and Play, developers can plug virtually any peripheral into a Windows PC without having to worry about drivers.
AWS and Espressif’s Workshop in the USA#
On 4 June, Espressif and AWS co-hosted a hands-on workshop focused on developing IoT solutions using Amazon FreeRTOS and ESP32 development boards, such as ESP32-DevKitC and ESP-WROVER-KIT-VB. Embedded developers learned about the AWS IoT suite of services and built firmware for the management of typical IoT appliances.
Espressif Sponsors Pycom’s #GOINVENT World Series of Workshops#
Pycom has been an Espressif partner since 2017. They provide IoT platforms with end-to-end solutions that can fit any project. Pycom has recently started a series of workshops aiming to engage with the worldwide community of IoT makers. Espressif could not but support them in this fantastic initiative.
Create 8-bit Tunes with ESP8266!#
Chiptune, also known as chip music or 8-bit music, is a style of synthesized electronic music made using the programmable sound generator (PSG) sound chips in vintage arcade machines, computers and video game consoles. However, you can now create cool 8-bit tunes, using an ESP8266 dev board.