Wide eyed and pinless

The ESP32 is mostly my weapon of choice when making embedded devices. The only problem that I’ve had with the device is that tends to be supplied as a device with ready soldered pins. This is fine if you want to plug it straight into a socket but I don’t tend to do that. I’m much happier soldering the wires directly onto the unit. This makes for a more reliable device and also allows me to use smaller boxes. T

The good news is that I’ve now found a supplier on AliExpress who is selling versions that don’t have the pins already fitted. They cost slightly more than the “normal” devices (which I find a bit surprising) but they do give a lot more flexibility.

One thing to remember though; it is a pain to build the ESP32 device into your device and then find that you have a faulty one. So make sure you test the ESP32 before you solder it in.