Embedded electronics specialist LILYGO has launched a brand new growth board primarily based on the Espressif ESP32-S3 system-on-chip, and this one’s for anybody who struggles to squeeze a consumer interface right into a narrower structure: the ultra-wide T-Show S3 Lengthy.
The T-Show S3 Lengthy, delivered to our consideration by CNX Software program, is constructed across the Espressif ESP32-S3R8 system-on-chip — giving it a 32-bit dual-core Tensilica Xtensa LX7 processor operating at as much as 240MHz, vector extensions for improved efficiency of on-device machine studying and synthetic intelligence (AL and ML) workloads, 512kB of static RAM (SRAM) and an extra 8MB of pseudo-static RAM (PSRAM) off-chip — plus 16MB of off-chip SPI flash storage.
The T-Show S3 Lengthy is maybe somewhat misnamed, being an ultra-wide panel with built-in Espressif ESP32-S3. (📷: LILYGO)
The chip features a radio assist IEEE 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi within the 2.4GHz spectrum and Bluetooth 5.0 Low Power (BLE) with a knowledge fee of as much as 2Mb/s and assist for Bluetooth Mesh networking. There is a USB Sort-C On-The-Go (OTC) port, positioned at a 90-degree angle to the board to make it simpler to mount in a entrance panel, with two Qwiic I2C headers and a 30-pin general-purpose enter/output (GPIO) header on a 1.27mm pin-pitch.
It is the show, although, that’s the board’s actual promoting level. The three.4″ panel is an ultra-wide 640×180 decision shade TFT, with an built-in SPI-connected capacitive contact layer. In comparison with the corporate’s earlier T-Show fashions, it is the widest but — and the entire board could be pushed by way of an non-compulsory lithium-polymer (LiPo) battery, the corporate has confirmed.
The T-Show S3 Lengthy is now out there to order on the LILYGO retailer at $29.35; consumers, nonetheless, ought to heed the corporate’s warning that the show is designed to be used with a tweaked LVGL graphics library 8.3.0 solely, and that upgrading to a more recent model will doubtless end in sudden conduct.