<story><title>The Nano ESP32</title><url>https://blog.arduino.cc/2023/07/17/introducing-the-nano-esp32-thats-iot/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Havoc</author><text>I struggle to understand the appeal of these more premium ESP32 boards.  I’m gonna throw the same code on it. It’s an ESP32 either way. What exactly am I buying here for that 3x price</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jmrm</author><text>People who don&amp;#x27;t want to mess around with low level configuration. For me, using an Arduino is the equivalent of prototyping a software in Python instead of doing it in C.&lt;p&gt;I haven&amp;#x27;t used any Expressif product, but is easy to find a problem or a bug while programming a MCU if you&amp;#x27;re new with it, and you don&amp;#x27;t know exactly what registers you need to edit to configure to set up the hardware correctly, or if there are hardware details, like the use of multiplexing in pins, to deal with.&lt;p&gt;With Arduino you can forget a lot of the smaller details, and you only have to know what pins to use, how you want to use them, what devices use, and the simple functions Arduino gives to you to use them (which are commom across most of boards).</text></comment>
<story><title>The Nano ESP32</title><url>https://blog.arduino.cc/2023/07/17/introducing-the-nano-esp32-thats-iot/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Havoc</author><text>I struggle to understand the appeal of these more premium ESP32 boards.  I’m gonna throw the same code on it. It’s an ESP32 either way. What exactly am I buying here for that 3x price</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AnotherGoodName</author><text>Just for prototyping ease tbh.&lt;p&gt;You would always make a custom board for an actual mass appeal product. If it&amp;#x27;s not a mass made product why do you care? Pick the easiest one regardless of cost.&lt;p&gt;This is essentially a dev kit. With the ability to easily mess with it. You don&amp;#x27;t care about the cost here because it&amp;#x27;s not really an expense when amortized.</text></comment>