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Building FOFOCA: An Open-Source AI Robot with ESP32, ESP32-C3, and Edge AI

Building FOFOCA: An Open-Source AI Robot with ESP32, ESP32-C3, and Edge AI

FOFOCA is an open-source reference design for an AI-governed household robot, built around a Raspberry Pi 5 brain, an ESP32 for real-time motor control and sensor polling, and an ESP32-C3 driving an OLED status display over MQTT. This article walks through the hardware architecture, the firmware running on each Espressif chip, and how all of it connects to a local edge AI server running NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 8B for inference — no cloud dependency required.
ESP-IDF Tutorials: Soft-AP

ESP-IDF Tutorials: Soft-AP

·9 mins
This tutorial guides you through setting up a soft-AP using an Espressif module and ESP-IDF. It covers the process of creating a project, configuring Wi-Fi, and handling connection events through event loops. Upon completion, you’ll be able to establish a soft-AP and manage Wi-Fi connections. It is the first step to building more advanced networking applications.