Project of the month: DIY drone on ESP32 S3 Sense board

Absolutely sick project – this guy builds a drone on a widely available ESP32 S3 Sense chip. Recently I started to poke Seeed Studio XIAO RP2350 (which is a Pico-2W clone), and suddenly found they have a whole line of boards with different capabilities, including famous ESP32 that has more memory, faster CPU, microphone, Wi-Fi, IMU on board and you can even do some rudimentary AI processing with TinyML.

I was able to get micropython working with my BNO-086 IMU and WS2812B LED strips, then switched to C++ on VsCode / Pico2W extension, now it’s time to check Arduino Studio and ESP32. Not sure if I’ll have time for the full drone projects, but definitely need to dive into sensors.