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by seonr 1808 days ago
Sorry, I don't mean to nitpick, but the Espressif Dev-Kit boards are 2.5 * bigger than the TinyPICO (not 1 cm) and have no onboard battery management - something that most ESP32 users want - and no extra PSRAM. They also have no low current power paths so are terrible at deep sleep. But they are designed as reference boards, not as user facing project boards.

TinyPICO has 4MB Flash and 4MB extra PSRAM on top of the 520k SRAM plus the rest.

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I pointed all that out, thanks for pointing out it is 2.5cm instead of 1cm. Battery and size are where tinypico shines, and I mentioned the psram. If you are plugged in and 2.5 cm doesnt matter, I recommend espressif parts.

Esp32 is very common for led controls. Leds are usually plugged in. For those uses, tinypico buys me less than I hoped.