EasyEDA ESP32-DevkitC-32E-N8 testing

Remember that these (at least the ones I bought from you) have the wrong pin width for the jackpot. That batch is set up for breadboard width, the Jackpot is slightly different.

I almost suggested having an un-populated set of though holes on one side of the jackpot to allow accommodating this sizing, then thought “nah, too much hassle.” but maybe worthwhile if you want to make a “universal” jackpot carrier.

I was able to bend the sockets on my 2nd jackpot just enough to make it fit- but I had a few choice words to say as I did it :slight_smile:

You should, your time is valuable and having this all sorted out is worth a few more dollars at sale time.

Woo hoo!

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Some of Dring’s boards have both headers in place. I think I am okay with bending the headers a bit. I designed the other board the same size as the genuine, so they will fit perfect.

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OMG!!! I am scared to plug it in.

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The uart on the bottom are too close together.

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@jono035 …The LED is stupid bright…You are right again.

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It flashed perfectly…

Files loaded.

Seems to work!!!

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Gotta love ultra-bright SMT LEDs… Like colourful little needles straight into the eyeballs…

I’d note on the schematic what the expected mcd brightness is and what it should change to next time. That’s a nice easy way to keep an errata list for future changes. No issue with dropping the resistor further, LED datasheets normally have a relatively high minimum current (often ~1mA) but they’ll light even with current in the low uA range.

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@vicious1
If you haven’t boxed my order yet, will you add one of your ESPs to my order.
Thanks,
Britt

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Yours is actually next…but something is not right with them.

You want to hold your order for a couple days with a possible fix or ship it now with no new esp.

You can hold it and hopefully find a fix.
Thanks

PS - Mine will be signed like the first Jackpot boards right? :wink:

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Bottom uarts are close but not touching. Next round I will make ovals with larger spacing.

So far they are fine. Oddly enough they will not broadcast the ssid naked on usb only. plug them into a jackpot USB only SSID pops up. Naked USB start a terminal ssid pops up. On a jackpot with power supply no usb, everything works fine.

I need to test this against the espressiff boards. The clones do not do this.

Odd it works fine with the steppers but I am still getting incomplete $ss from them.

Everything looks good in the fluid term $ss. It is just over the webui.

I wonder if it has to do with these being N8’s not N4’s?

Is this just the difference between 4MB and 8MB Flash?

I do think you have to compile FluidNC yourself to be able to address the bigger storage.

Is that the only difference? do you know the difference between 32D and 32E?

I thought it was just the flash. So maybe the 8m flash HAS to be flashed for it, not just use the 4M?

The espressifs I have are also 32E but N4. They flash and boot normal, they also work on USB only naked…actually let me double check I know I got both versions when I bought them.

Edit—yup using a 32E-N4 all functional.

I was hoping it would just be spare in the background free if we ever needed it. I guess I can try a manual compile and flash.

Wierd that they move fine, SD card reads fine, just the USB naked boot thing and $ss.

Feels like we might be narrowing down the $ss issue though. Feels like a solid data point.

I just tried by only changing that flag and got

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Might have to reach out to FluidNC guys and ask if it’s ok to have N8 without custom compile and still only use 4MB

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Gotcha.

Dammit why did I add the extra 4M. Now I have to get an espressif 32e-n8 to see if it is the same. What a bonehead.