 and welcome to the show it's me JP it's time for another episode of JP's product pick of the week I am so happy to be here and I am glad you're joining me this week's product pick is going like hotcakes so the first thing I want to do is send you over to the product page so go there to that QR code or to that URL head to the product page this show is being displayed right inside of there and you're going to see we've got a 50% off discount on this week's product pick they're going like hotcakes I saw it jump from about a hundred down to 50 something so go there right now if you think you want to get them I don't want you to delay you don't need a coupon code or anything like that you just head there and you'll find the discounted price uh so first thing I'm going to do is have lady aida introduce us to this product pick so take it away lady aida the esp32 s2 tft feather um so we basically took a 1.14 inch color tft display and slapped it onto our feather esp32 s2 to give you a wi-fi microcontroller board based on the esp32 s2 with native usb two uh megabytes of ps ram four megabytes of flash just got a lot of capability a lot of speed and it's got this color tft display and um you can see I also have a little neopixel up top and a stem acutee port so you can plug and play i-squared c reset and boot button um it's went through a couple different redesigns due to part shortages and etc etc um but you know if you want something that's just ready to go it has a display um you can even use the you know the boot button as an input so you might be able to do even some simple projects that just need like one button um and a display and and i-squared c you know plug for external sensors go to the other hand expanders you have got usbc battery input and you can see here's the stem acutee port you can plug in vertically so you can have i-squared c um sensors and expanders reset and boot buttons color tft display it's all feather compatible of course you wouldn't want to plug a feather um on top of it like a feather wing on top of it but you could use a doubler uh on the bottom we've got um an esp 32 um s2 mini with four megabytes of flash two megabytes of ps ram um all the passives for monitoring the battery there's an lc 709 203 um and that's a i-squared c ultra low power battery monitoring that does like um voltage and not cool i'm counting but it like kind of tracks the voltage you just tell it the capacity of the battery and it'll automatically um it'll automatically tell you the percentage and voltage of the battery so you can like track percentage and not have to do the the math to convert like 3.7 volts to whatever and there's also a second regulator um the second regulator is used to um uh uh disable power um from the i-squared c or tft display so you can do like ultra low power uses because i think that could be you know more people are trying to use our boards for low power and i thought um i had time with this one to because i had to redesign it doing due to the component shortage so you can turn off the tft power and the power to the i-squared c port and get down to like 8200 micro ampere which is about as low as you can get in deep sleep when using an esp 32 s2 and still have like you know the regulator and then of course in a lighter sleep like a sleep where you want to resume execution i think it's about one milliamp um so overall pretty um full featured boards it sounds like the most stuff it's uh double sided um so again you know you you don't want to put a feather on top i recommend like a doubler or something with this if you want to add um more hardware but this is also great for a breadboard because you can use on a breadboard and have the tft display um and um you know plug it in and it'll the the height of all the components on the bottom isn't higher than um the header spacer so that's kind of what i recommend it to be used for um but otherwise it's basically just like a feather esp 32 s2 with a high speed tft display and for circuit python it's great because you'll have um the grapple show up on the tft when you plug it in all right yeah let me go ahead and uh grab one i've got one right here let's take a look at oh yes there it is fits so nicely in that box let's talk about this so product pick of the week this week is the feather esp 32 s2 tft this is a fantastic board it has what two megs of uh ps ram and four megs of flash on it you can use it for es for usb things such as h id stuff and midi stuff um it has wi-fi this is not a chip that has bluetooth so some of the esp's do this one is a wi-fi chip and lemore was talking about plugging it into things but honestly it's got everything you need on there for a lot of projects and then it also has that stem of qt breakout to add a sensor or a chain of things to it so if we take a look in fact i'm gonna jump over to our product page for this if you take a look uh first of all jump on this because it is almost out of stock i know we had a hundred of them to start and we're down to nine of them so uh so grab one if you want to get it it's half price which is terrific you just can't beat that uh that price for the amount of microcontroller you're getting right there uh it's terrific for all in one projects because it's got the display right on there if you scroll down here you'll see some stats about including this is a 240 megahertz tensilica processor on here uh some info about the uh tft display this is 240 by 135 yeah that's right 240 by 135 it's a ips display so it's got some some good angles on it uh i'll show you i'll show you a couple demos running on here in a second if you scroll down in here you will get to not only our video happening right inside of here but also some guides so we have a main learn guide right here uh from catney which will tell you all about it how to get it set up you can use this with circuit python you can use this with arduino uh there's even some whippers whippersnapper setup info there for doing uh very easy internet of things projects and then we have a couple of uh cool projects here one of them is adding a case to it so there's a a little 3d printable case from the reese brothers i did a modified version of that i'll show you in a second but this case they did allows you to hang it to things add sensors uh even put a battery inside there's also this esp whole ad blocker guide that i just came out with as well as a uh personal portable web server and that's the one i have uh my wordle game on so let me show you some of these let's uh let's jump into a couple of these little demos so first of all here's this little case i built for it you can just uh snap fit this in this is just a uh a model i derived based on the reese brothers model just uh removed some features really to make it a little more streamlined for my needs and i'll go ahead and just plug in usb power to this one so this one when it boots up this is the esp whole and if i use the ip address on there 1.133 as my dns server then i can uh have ad blocking happen on my phone on any laptops or any devices using wi-fi if we pop that out of there and take a look at this one this is a different project this is that wordle server but this can be any kind of web server a little mobile web server so you can connect directly to this so you don't need a wi-fi access necessarily right now it's going through my local network but you can also if this is not connected to a network it'll serve up something from the from the board itself and you can see i add a little space in this one so that we can put in this big switch as well as a battery that's there uh the board has charging so if i plug that in you'll see the little yellow led light up there and it's now charging that board um and this is a really great all-around um board you know the esp boards are the ones the esp chips rather the ones that we can get a hold of now so you'll see we're doing a lot of uh different esp 32 based uh projects and boards that that l'amour is is designing and this one's really terrific it's it's kind of one of the most modern feathers that we have since it has usb c on it which i love it has a stem of qt port on it so you can just plug a sensor or something into that just plug that right into the uh the top there and uh we've got the couple buttons on there so you can use the let's see if i can get this to go to the the boot there uh i can't remember if this one wants a double click i think this one wants the boot and the reset one of those um nope that's just reset it uh but if you double click these you can uh you can get to the reset put circuit python on there or if you're if you're boot loading from arduino you can use that as well uh on the back side you see we've got the big esp 32 s2 package on there as well as most of the rest of the charging circuit and passives and voltage regulator and so on uh this can plug into a breadboard this can have things plugged into it it can go into a doubler into a tripler you can solder things directly to it so i've also got mounting holes on there so you can really use this like you use any feather but the fact that you've got this great looking uh sharp colorful display on there allows you to get a lot of projects done uh really really easily uh let's see if we let me uh jump back to a main view here put that one up in the corner there zoom down in on that uh yeah unfortunately i think we have sold out so that is the double-edged sword of having this uh great pricing is that they go quick i think we are now officially out of stock uh if you want to get one of course you're not going to get it at the half price but you can sign up uh there's a little out of stock on the on the webpage you can fill out the little uh your email notify me you'll find out when these come back it being an esp 32 baseboard we will be making lots and lots more of them it is one of the chips like i said that we've got uh we've got coming in so you will see this one again it's not going away anytime soon uh let's see any questions over in the chat um let me know we got a couple of if you take a look at the discord there we've got a couple of links to some of these cases yeah rufus says esp hole then i could reclaim my pi zero w exactly the uh reason one of the reasons that lamar wanted to do this esp whole project was that we we don't have pi zeros and and uh and pies in general they're really hard to get so if you're using a pie for some basic ad blocking this is not as sophisticated as piehole but it works really well it will block a ton of domains uh and you can download a blacklist onto it to to update i think right now it says we're blocking or checking 7,061 domains um so yeah use this it's a a great way to get um ad blocking going on your devices and then you can free up a pie zero w that you had in a in a piehole project uh let's see i think that's it yeah we have a few people who got some and they definitely went like hot cakes uh if you are uh interested there are other feather esp 32 s2 boards that we have uh again the the status of stock will will come and go but uh in general those are the chips that we're able to get so thank you so much for stopping by that's my product pick of the week it is the feather esp 32 s2 tft and i'll go ahead and put a hanger on there and we'll put that up on the board i say that like it's easy there we go let's hang that up on the board here and that is going to do it for another episode of jp's product pick of the week thank you everyone for stopping by and don't forget we have a bunch of shows coming up there's going to be three hangouts tomorrow morning there's a show and tell that liz and i'll be co-hosting as well as ask an engineer uh and then i'll be back with a workshop show on thursday and i believe we have a deep dive with tim on friday so uh if i missed anything head on over to our discord it's adafruit.it slash discord and you can type in showtimes or go to the live stream uh channels and check out what's coming up all right thanks everyone i will see you next time bye-bye