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  • Is there one for RP2350?
    by djmips
  • I actually want to have a play with this sometime. But honestly, these gigantic, poorly-formatted AI-slop paragraphs like the one below this heading…

    https://github.com/mikroverk/esp32sim#boards-esp32-s3

    … are just too much with their dense mix of formatting, brackets, semantic punctuation, command line arguments and part numbers etc. (This one is particularly absurd but it's not the only one).

    I may be middle-aged now and a non-expert but I am pretty sure these things are generally exhausting to even expert young readers. I would urge you to reconsider how this page is presented.

    by dofm
  • This is huge! I love the idea of this and I’ve been frustrated by the solutions offered earlier.
    by matthewfcarlson
  • This emulator is actually pretty cool — especially since it’s based on an ESP32; you can do all sorts of neat things with it, even simple ones:)
    by Klovy
  • Very nice! Are you planning P4 support? Have lots of S3 units and some C6, but P4 are the ones getting the most attentation at the moment.
    by snakeman
  • Outstanding! Very cool.

    On a lot of IoT projects, it's easier to create a "functional" software simulator for the hardware part so the mobile and cloud people can get going without having to wait for test hardware. Those simulators work at the level of emulating BLE or WiFi/API commands. Once you have hardware, the simulators are only used in CI/CD testing.

    Where I can see this coming handy is instead of a "functional simulator" to actually have real firmware running for each mobile or back-end dev and CI/CD runner.

    by raminf
  • Very cool, that was something I was looking into very recently.

    I vibe coded a drone simulator that flys drones by simulating ESP32 in the browser where the actual flight controller C code that runs on real ESP32 is running as WebAssembly: https://mrtksn.github.io/liftlab/

    So the drones are flying with the actual ESP32 flight controller and you can flash the real ESP32 board directly.

    by mrtksn
  • This is the first thing I started looking for when I started gathering ESP32s. I will definitely be checking this out! My main thought for it was experimenting with Meshtastic firmware without potentially bricking one of my devices.
    by ThePinion

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