[HN Gopher] STM32/ESP32/ESP8285-Based High-Performance Radio Lin...
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       STM32/ESP32/ESP8285-Based High-Performance Radio Link for RC
       Applications
        
       Author : michidk
       Score  : 20 points
       Date   : 2021-05-15 10:00 UTC (13 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (github.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
        
       | hyperman1 wrote:
       | A small question: I am thinking of using ESP32 LOLIN32 boards to
       | connect with the LEGO poweredup modules, as they combine decent
       | bluetooth and built-in lythium batteries on a small PCB. But the
       | ESP-IDF suite is this bigger-than-auditable download of scripts
       | from a Chinese company, so my brain's security leds started
       | blinking. Is there any way to do, for example, gcc development
       | from the debian repositories.
        
         | CasperDern wrote:
         | It's been a while, so I'm not sure if it will work on the newer
         | models, but I used to use the xtensa-lx106-elf (patched from
         | crosstool-NG[0]) toolchain to build my ESP8266 project and then
         | upload it wil esptool.py. There was also esp-open-sdk which was
         | an installer for that toolchain and some additional
         | libraries[1].
         | 
         | [0]: https://github.com/i404788/crosstool-NG [1]:
         | https://github.com/pfalcon/esp-open-sdk
        
       | holoduke wrote:
       | These radio link protocols like expressLRS are completely
       | bepassing all guidelines. For example their frequency channel /
       | hopping tactics are bombarding the spectrums. Making it very
       | aggressive and causing a lot of interference with other devices.
       | People should not use this in the field. In some countries you
       | can be jailed for this. (This is not just radio piracy)
        
       | majormjr wrote:
       | ExpressLRS is looking very promising. Hopefully it will do the
       | same thing with radio protocols as OpenTX has done with the radio
       | transmitter market; lowering costs for software development and
       | allowing cheaper hardware with more feature.
        
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