[eltoozero]

"Venerable" implies some worthiness.

ESP8266 is a hacker friendly wifi gadget, for $2, but otherwise garbage.

You get what you pay for.

Also it's wifi only, not bluetooth.

[blhack]

In what ways is the ESP garbage?

[illicium]

ESP32, the successor to the ESP8266, has both WiFi and Bluetooth, but it's fairly expensive.