Hi everyone,
We said goodbye to April with a glorious party celebrating Espressif’s 10th birthday! Espressif was created on April 29th, 2008. Back then our company was a small Chinese startup fueled with the vision of its CEO and founder, Teo Swee Ann. It soon became apparent that Espressif’s field of specialization would be the Internet of Things. Our company evolved significantly in this area, leaving its indelible mark with such popular IoT solutions as ESP8266and ESP32. During the last decade, Espressif has changed from being a Chinese technology startup to being a multinational company providing fast, secure and green IoT solutions that can be available to all.
To celebrate our tenth anniversary we launched Espressif’s brand new Instagram account, which you can follow by clicking here. They say that a picture is worth a thousand words. Since Instagram is based on broadcasting pictures mainly, we want to use the power of image in order to communicate our brand, our values and our technologies to the worldwide community of IoT developers. We really hope that you join us in this new journey through social media, which is meant to complement our presence on Twitter, Facebook and WeChat.
One day prior to Espressif’s birthday, our Indian branch in Pune hosted an IoT meetup. These meetups are monthly events scheduled for the
last Saturday of every month. Every session includes one or two technical presentations, followed by demonstrations of exciting projects from the IoT community in Pune. The last meetup on April 28th, examined how MQTT started and evolved as a dominant protocol for TCP/IP communications. The specific topics included an explanation of MQTT 3.1, the new aspects of MQTT 5, and a presentation of AWS IoT as an MQTT broker. The session was very successful attracting numerous attendees who left their positive remarks on the event’s webpage. In the May edition of our newsletter you will also find out more about the results of the ESP32 Design Contest 2018, which we organized and delivered together with Elektor International Media; the release of the much anticipated ESP-IDF v3.0; Espressif’s official mesh development framework, ESP-MDF, which supports mesh applications for the ESP32 chip in the most comprehensive way; and “Atmosphere IoT”, the innovative cloud platform which has just started providing support for our ESP32 chipsets.
We hope that you enjoy reading the May edition of our newsletter and that you continue following us on Instagram, Facebook , Twitter and WeChat.
Best wishes, John Lee
Senior Customer Support Officer
Big Success for the ESP32 Design Contest 2018#
Remember last January when we announced that we would organize a contest about ESP32 Design together with Elektor International Media? After receiving a great number of remarkable entries, our judging panel, which consisted of engineers from Espressif and Elektor, announced the winners at the end of last month. Our judges noted that the programming level of all participating entries was considerably high, which made their task more challenging, but also more intellectually stimulating and exciting.
ESP-IDF v3.0 Released#
The latest version of Espressif’s IoT Development Framework, ESP-IDF v3.0, has just been released. This is part of our commitment to improve our IoT solutions, based on the results of our quality assurance procedures and the feedback we receive from the community of developers who use our chips.
ESP-MESH Development Framework Released#
Further to ESP8266’s Wi-Fi mesh networking, Espressif is pleased to announce that this local network topology is now officially supported on ESP32, as well. ESP-MDF is the official mesh development framework for ESP32, supporting mesh applications for our flagship chip in the most comprehensive way.
Atmospher IoT Starts Supporting ESP32#
Atmosphere IoT has just started supporting Espressif Systems’ ESP32, with the aim of delivering better, faster and more secure IoT solutions for everyone. First released in January 2015, the innovative cloud platform of Atmosphere IoT has already been used by thousands of developers and OEMs. Adding to this the power of Espressif’s ESP32 will enable developers to build and deploy cloud-enabled embedded applications with optimized cost performance and reduced time-to-market.
Originally published at mailchi.mp.