Every now and then there’s a part that comes along which is hotly anticipated, but which understandably its manufacturer remains tight-lipped about in order to preserve maximum impact surrounding its ...

Update 3/9/25: After receiving concerns about the use of the term 'backdoor' to refer to these undocumented commands, we have updated our title and story. Our original story can be found here. The ...

ESP32-C6 has a 160MHz RISC-V core for performance and 20MHz RISC-V processor for power-saving, 320kByte ROM, 512kbyte, and external flash capability. On-board are transceivers for 2.4GHz Wi-Fi 6 and ...

If you’re a reader of Hackaday, then you’ve almost certainly encountered an Espressif part. The twin microcontroller families ESP8266 and ESP32 burst onto the scene and immediately became the ...