Welcome to our October Newsletter
Hi everyone,
The beginning of autumn has been marked by a bunch of exciting Espressif-related news. First and foremost, we released the latest version of ESP-IDF v3.1 with improvements on previous features regarding its Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity, as well as its Security Manager Protocol (SMP). At the same time, certain companies in Espressif’s ecosystem introduced new ESP-related features, services and products, including Olimex’s ESP32 DevKit LiPo; Atmosphere’s platform update with Wi-Fi support for ESP32; the Sensything ESP32 board with multi-sensor data acquisition, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth; Zerynth’s combination of IoT and Blockchain, using simple Python on the ESP32-DevKitC; and, last but not least, we also got a sneak peek of the upcoming ESP32-powered watch by Squarofumi on Twitter!
Additionally, among the most recent independent ESP8266-based projects that we distinguished were the Pluto Quadcopter by the Indian startup Drona Aviation; a Code-Review Lamp, notifying developer teams of pending code reviews (this one is for the fellow programmers out there!); the Amazon Echo (IR) TV Remote; a Bitcoin-activated power outlet; and an IoT Pool Monitor,
measuring the pH, Oxidation-Reduction Potential (ORP) and temperature of the water. The global community of developers never ceases to impress us with their new and inventive uses of Espressif products!
Other news you can find in the October edition of our newsletter include the two-day courses on building end-products with ESP-IDF, which we are jointly hosting with Grid Connect in Chicago and San Francisco this month; the release of Espressif’s Alexa SDK, which provides an implementation of Amazon’s Alexa Voice Service for the ESP32 microcontroller; an interview with the best-selling writer and maker, Erik Bartmann, about his latest book on ESP32, *Das ESP32 Praxisbuch *(The ESP32 Practice Book); and an ESP32-powered badge, Ph0xx, which can be easily turned into a bipedal mini robot!
Hope you enjoy this month’s newsletter, and keep sending us your messages and requests on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. We respond to all of your messages as quickly as possible!
Best wishes,
John Lee.
Senior Customer Support Officer
ESP32 Developer Trainings in the USA#
Espressif is partnering with Grid Connect for the first time to host developer trainings on ESP32 in Chicago and San Francisco. These hands-on, in-depth trainings will focus on building end-products using Espressif’s IoT Development Framework (ESP-IDF). These 2-day trainings will cover the latest version of the ESP-IDF (v3.1) and will be given by Espressif engineers.
Alexa on ESP32#
Espressif’s Alexa SDK has just been released, providing an implementation of Amazon’s Alexa Voice Service for the ESP32 microcontroller. This is meant to facilitate developers to evaluate ESP32-based devices integrating Alexa, such as speakers and IoT devices.
New Book on ESP32 by Best-Selling Author Erik Bartmann#
Erik Bartmann is an experienced maker and writer with several bestselling books about programming and electronics under his belt. After the success of *Das ESP8266 Praxisbuch (The ESP8266 Practice Book) *in 2016, Erik gave us its sequel, *Das ESP32 Praxisbuch *(The ESP32 Practice Book), in July 2018. In his usual reader-friendly way, Erik illustrates step by step the great variety of projects that anyone can create with ESP32.
Ph0xx: ESP32 Badge Turned Into Robot#
Have you been to a hackathon or a high-tech event lately? Did they give you a digital badge that was interactive, hackable and reusable? Pretty cool, huh? Well, did you actually do something with your badge after the event, or did you put it in a dark desk drawer? If the latter is the case, the ESP32 Badge which can be turned into a bipedal robot might give you some inspiration as to what to do with your own badge.
Originally published at mailchi.mp.