Uploaded July 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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I've been designing an ESP32-based dev board recently and I got to thinking - what's the minimum we can get away with and still have something that works? As always we're sponsored by PCBWay.com/?from=atomic.

Turns out that you don't need much at all, a pretty interesting experiment - though it did involve a lot of cursing as I tried to get stupidly tiny bits of wire soldered onto very tiny pads...

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