This guide walks through using ESP‑Claw to build a no‑code IoT solution on an ESP32‑S3‑N16R8 board, covering firmware download, flashing, Wi‑Fi and model configuration, IM channel setup, a soil‑moisture demo, and a comparison with traditional coding approaches.
Espressif's upcoming ESP32‑S31 is a dual‑core RISC‑V wireless MCU featuring a high‑performance core with FPU/SIMD, a low‑power core, 62 GPIO, gigabit Ethernet, Wi‑Fi, Bluetooth, 802.15.4, plus a rich set of peripherals, while offering fewer multimedia interfaces than the ESP32‑P4.
Anthropic’s newly released BLE API lets developers embed Claude Code’s approval workflow into ESP32‑based devices, and within two days the community has produced several hardware adaptations—including M5StickC, X‑Knob, Cardputer, and Raspberry Pi Pico W—turning code approvals into tangible, customizable interactions.
RuView, an open‑source edge‑AI project built on a CMU Wi‑Fi DensePose paper, claims to achieve wall‑penetrating human pose estimation, vital sign monitoring, and ultra‑fast presence detection using only standard Wi‑Fi signals and low‑cost ESP32 hardware, while sparking intense community debate over its claimed capabilities and reproducibility.
The article showcases three low‑cost edge deployments of OpenClaw—a $25 Moto phone using Termux, a $5 ESP32‑S3 board running a pure‑C MimiClaw, and the BotDrop Android app that turns an old phone into an AI agent host—detailing setup steps, challenges, and security considerations.
Toit is a free, open‑source programming language designed for IoT that runs on ESP32 devices, offering fast Python‑like syntax, multitasking, container‑based deployment, wireless cloud connectivity, a secure gRPC API, and a Visual Studio Code extension for rapid development.
