2026-09-22 04:11 UTC
@StarkRG@myside-yourside.net That is a cool idea. I think Arduino & C++ is your best bet also, or possibly an ESP? I think there's some newish versions that are designed specifically to run on ulta-low power... but it's foggy. Either way, you're gonna get more for your electrons with C++ I think.
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@StarkRG@myside-yourside.net 2026-09-22 04:18
@jpaskaruk@growers.social Yeah, it's an ESP-32, I'm just using the Arduino IDE and libraries. I was gonna go for the full espressif IDE (based on Eclipse), but the Arduino libraries have good documentation and it wouldn't take much to rewrite it without the Arduino hand-holding. Apparently the C3 version has the lowest power draw in sleep of all the hobbyist-oriented MCUs as well as the best compute-per-watt, but I don't have any of those so it'll be an S2 for now. Again, should be easy to adapt if I change it