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by bartvk 1814 days ago
The pinout of that ESP32 board says 3.3V but the author feeds 5V into it. But apparently it works :)

Something else I didn't quite understand: they write "NodeMCU ESP32 which is a small IoT device with a USB port and is programmable in ESPHome". Does that mean that the little board itself does not need to be flashed? That, out of the box, it's controllable/programmable in ESPHome, which is webbased?

Looks like a fun little project, all in all. Kudos for documenting and sharing it!

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> The pinout of that ESP32 board says 3.3V but the author feeds 5V into it.

He is using a dev-board with a USB jack and an integrated step-down converter. The ESP32 is not 5V tolerant at all, the pinout diagram is for the pads on the ESP32 module, not the whole board.

It does still need to be flashed. ESP32 are blank on arrival