Why ESP32's Are The Best Microcontrollers (ESP32 + Arduino series)

in this video I want to go over some of the reasons why in my opinion the ESP 32 is an incredible microcontroller and why you should use it in your IT projects for starters the ESP 32 is very powerful it contains a dual-core CPU that can be clocked at 80 160 or 240 megahertz that's quite a lot of computing power in a reasonably small chip it also has a ULP or ultra-low power co processor and this is a much slower processor that can be used to perform smaller tasks while the big dual-core CPU is in a sleep mode now besides killer processors the ESP 32 also has a ton of memory it includes 512 kilobytes of on-chip as ram memory used for data and program instructions besides this there is also support for external memory and depending on your board that might be as much as four to eight megabytes this means that the ESP 32 is also suitable for some heavier tasks like connecting with cameras recognizing speech streaming data from the internet and so on but the biggest reason why I think this chip is so good is that it has built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth so no need for additional radio modules like you would see on most Arduino boards the ESP 32 is just one chip with everything in one package the rest of the i/o is pretty impressive as well there is a 12 bit ADC which can be used to measure external voltages there are ten touch sensors for detecting capacitive touches an LED power management chip a Hall effect sensor built in acceleration for encryption and again depending on your board up to 34 programmable GPIO pins so basically the ESP 32 is a very versatile chip that can be used for many IOT projects and if you use all of this power wisely you can even let it run on a battery for a very long time but other videos in this series will focus on that and finally I want to mention that the ESP 32 also supports the Arduino framework if you know how to program an hour Drina birth then you already know how to work with the ESP 32 and it also implies that all of the Arduino libraries that already exist also work on the ESP 32 a huge advantage so if you are convinced by the ESP 32 then check out the rest of the videos in this series for a deep dive into it

Channel: Simply Explained

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Length: 2min 36sec (156 seconds)

Published: Fri May 22 2020