Tag: esp32

2 posts tagged with "esp32".

It was never the password

Rusty Nail can now download PICO-8 carts over WiFi and run them from a pop-up launcher. Getting there meant a reason-15 rabbit hole that turned out to be my own off-by-one, a GPIO pin that genuinely died on the bench, and a coexistence crash I caused myself.

The controller layer was the chip

I wanted a Bluetooth gamepad to drive the fantasy console. I picked the wrong ESP32, learned that BLE-only is silicon and not a setting, and ended up swapping the chip instead of the code.