EP#144: Espress-ify? Designing Products Around the ESP-32 Platform.

Guests

• Zapp
  • Chief Bling Officer (CBO) at AND!XOR
  • During his limited free time he writes vulnerable C code, dabbles in Kicad, and trolls Arduino bot accounts on Twitter
  • Never been seen at the same time and place as Batman...But then again, neither has Stephen
• Hyr0n
  • A button pusher, easily replaced by a thousand monkeys with a thousand laptops, but manages to crank out firmware and hacker puzzles
  • If you’re reading this statement, he already has root access to your computer

We have had Zapp and Hyr0n on the podcast before. Check out MEP EP#69: Incognito Mode and MEP EP#109 Arduino, The Gateway Drug To #BadgeLife.

Topics

• Hyr0n’s Theremin
• Arduino bot accounts?
• Quick Recap on DEF CON 26 and the Bender AND!XOR Badge
• Engineering Process behind badge design 
  • idea -> thing
  • Come up with all the ideas and Venn Diagram the hardware needed to enable those ideas
• Espressif ESP32
  • Pushing it to the limit 
    • Spec sheet thots "oh shit, nice, lots of ram"
    • Developer after math "oh shit, xtensa sdk blows, it needs all that RAM"
  • Pros and Cons
  • Hardware and software interactions are interesting and poorly documented
  • Erratas?
• SD Card failures?
• Hackaday Badge and Hackaday Super Conference
  • Zapp and Hyr0n are giving a talk about lulzcode and hardware puzzles
  • Lulzcode docs

Tags: AND!XOR, Arduino Bot Accounts, Bender, DEF CON 26, electronics podcast, ESP-32, ESP32, Espressif, Hackaday, HyR0n, Lulzcode, MacroFab, macrofab engineering podcast, MEP, Super Con, Theremin, WROVER, Zapp