LilyGO Sent Me a Mysterious Package - New Boards by LilyGO

LilyGO has new and interesting products. They sent me a few of their new ESP32 boards. The new line of products is well protected and looks great.
Links:
ESP32 Java Script Serial Flasher: espressif.github.io/esptool-js/
Firmvare for Internet Clock: github.com/VolosR/T4Clock
NickTheFix Code for Encoder Pro: github.com/nikthefix/Lilygo_S...
Boards in video:
T-display AMOLED Touch with black shell: www.lilygo.cc/uHFC4r
T4 S3 with Blach Shell: www.lilygo.cc/IHx50O
T-Display s3 LONG shell version : www.lilygo.cc/GtU5bN
T-Encoder Pro www.lilygo.cc/J58Hnl
T-PANEL www.lilygo.cc/Bn7bXR
T-QT C6 www.lilygo.cc/PBh1k7
T-Glasses www.lilygo.cc/DUzntu
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[@piranha1337]

I'm so glad that Lilygo is recognizing your work. I bought a display from them solely because of your videos. Keep up the good work 👍

[@VolosProjects]

Thank you! I will try.

[@jeffschroeder4805]

LilyGo is making some beautiful boards. I really appreciate the availability of good cases, have no 3d printer and setting up a printer for one-offs would be too much work anyway.

[@toriann75]

Beautiful,but kind of expensive for real hobby if you plan to use more than one and not just play with them.

[@AerialWaviator]

Cool package and bike. Do like the bike speedometer project idea. It has my vote.

[@kiplinght]

The T-Panel can be used for smart home control. Your English is great!

[@rdyer8764]

I think it's really cool that all your hard work, plus the fact that you share so much through KZbin, is paying off with these freebies. Keep it up! Initially it will be small things like this, but at the rate you're going I can only imagine how much success is coming for you. I wish you all the best.

[@VolosProjects]

Thank you my friend, I hope you are right :)

[@totemadept]

Cool video, love that they have these with cases already and that they're easier to attach to things. looking forward to your next video.

[@saxpert]

You definitely have an awesome bike and a lot of biking skills...you deserve it.

[@madwilliamflint]

Oh those are gorgeous. I need to pick up a few of those.

[@EdholcombSr]

As always, very informative and humorous, nice bike !!!

[@VolosProjects]

Tnx Ed

[@briangoodwin4651]

Eyyy great video this looks like an essential Component to add a little net Runner flare for every cyberpunk dipping and dodging the Corpos! 🎉

[@morpheon_xyz]

So nice to see some solid looking boards with cases from LilyGo. Wish the T display S3 Pro had a black variant lol, but white will be fine for use. Got some waveshare displays this past week too, already started prototyping a case for the one, so I can't wait to see your tutorials because your projects always look top notch, and I can't wait to be on your level with my projects. Keep up the amazing content Volos 🙌

[@MartykanT]

Cools stuff, I'm especially interested in the glasses, pretty awesome at that price point

[@chrismayer8990]

Beautiful Boards!😍

[@apostolosn5536]

We have a beautiful sea side city here in Greece named Volos. Thanks for teaching us.

[@teebeeonline]

wow. thanks for sharing man. thanks to liliygo as well.

[@joefrisco]

As always, Most excellent.

[@nikthefix8918]

The new Lilygo shells are really nice - not just 3D printed but proper injection molded ABS (or similar) from what I can tell. That's quite a commitment considering tooling costs for the dies. M5stack are also really great with their enclosures.

[@mystamo]

yep.. They owe ya.. I own a few Lilly boards thanks to you. Unfortunately before you were an affiliate. Keep up the work you beast..

[@JanDahl]

The QT C6 was sold out before the video was even uploaded 😢 I was looking at it yesterday because I was looking for a board to get for Swift, and it has a ESP32 C6, which I believe is supported.

[@VolosProjects]

Yes C6 is very interesting. Thank you for you comment.

[@Great_XicoZe]

Another great video.🎉

[@nacs]

0:07 That bike is best bike by far.

[@ivovass195]

Lylygo have improved plenty and added new options which is great to see

[@wilkstube]

I look forward to your new projects! I also bought a few t-display because of one of your videos :) But I also want to know where to get those armored usb cables!

[@VolosProjects]

You can find it on temu shop. Thank you.

[@TheWatahboy]

Great stuff, looks like they are going to give M5 some competition in the design with some of these.

[@VolosProjects]

competition is good, then both of them will give more when designing new boards :) Thank you :)

[@SKElectronics]

❤ love from India keep the good work going.

[@rogerthomas7040]

Your English, is just fine. Us English will only ever have a right to comment once the majority of us have managed to learn a second language - it may be a while :)

[@Gertbfrobe407]

i hear your bike 🚲 is very neat 👌.... now i see 👀 it is true 👍 with your awesome tricks 😀

[@VolosProjects]

Hahah, thank you 😀

[@tylergood9168]

thanks. well done. and thanks lilygo.

[@philippehgt1791]

Hello , are this boards readable in high light ? ( outside or in the sun) , thank you for your videos , very instructable ....

[@iamkian]

Looks so nice, and I love the USB C cable (with the swivel). Where did you get it?

[@JeanPhilippeEncausse]

Thanks for your review, I don't understand how do you use the T-Glass. It didn't work for me (I put an issue on Github). By default, the display must be VERY far. If I reverse the prism the display is like a Google Glass but need to reverse the screen and the luminosity is very low. For me there is a strong design issue with the prism.

[@JeromeDemers]

are the glass gimmick or you can clearly and easily read the info on the screen?

[@djokinac]

odlichna kolekcij pozdrav

[@joeblow229]

One thing I hope LilyGO can work on is having a way to charge the battery without the rest of the board being on while charging.

[@Peter_S_]

Another excellent video with an excellent bike. 👍👍👍👍👍🚲

[@VolosProjects]

Hahaha, thanj you, yep my main transportation for last three years.

[@Peter_S_]

@@VolosProjects A bicycle has been my main transportation for over half my adult life and I'm in my 50s. I don't have a car right now in fact and I work 20 km away from home. Cheers from Boulder, Colorado, USA which is one of two places in America which claims to be where mountain biking was invented. 🚵

[@VolosProjects]

Wow, that is alot for daily commute.

[@Peter_S_]

@@VolosProjects A bus with a bike rack cuts the morning ride to

[@hapskie]

Too bad they only have a small portion of their displays in the Germany warehouse. I hope they will start delivering all models from there at normal prices.

[@Technical_stuff86]

Ti si LEGENDA!!!

[@ibmicroapple9142]

I love lilygo, they have that arduino feel to their company, as in: cool products, always open source and good community engagement. That's very rare for a Chinese company.

[@markgreco1962]

Special Agent Voltage readings would be nice

[@lohikarhu734]

T3 encoder pro is "sold out" ... massive sales from your video! Btw, the 'shell' adds less than US$3 to price

[@nikthefix8918]

Yes I think Lilygo are heroically swallowing that cost for our benefit. I would bet that the shell costs are greater than the board costs - in terms of manufacturing.

[@jamiuadegboyega2751]

You have been wonderful person to follow. You have a whole lot of these boards now. Please send a gift of lilygo product to me too😢. I have a beautiful bike too😂

[@nishad2m8]

😍

[@JanDahl]

Any of these supported by Embedded Swift?

[@SeanLumly]

Good for hobbyists, but perhaps expensive for short-run production.

[@nikthefix8918]

Since Lilygo provide the schematics and CAD models (eventually...), the boards make excellent reference designs for your own FAB - or at least a great starting point IMHO.

[@SeanLumly]

@@nikthefix8918 I think that's my broader point. They are good for VERY short run quantities (eg. hobby, or prototype as you imply), but priced to high to use at scale. Still, they are a very nice package. But sometimes I think that capitalism trips over it's own feet. If priced more aggressively, these could be the go-to for both hobbyists and short-run OEM.

[@nikthefix8918]

@@SeanLumly Oh I see, but I wasn't suggesting using the actual liligo product in your designs but rather using the tried and tested design files, sourcing your own components, having your own pcbs made, populating them and expanding on the design to meet your OEM needs. That could work out very cheap in quantity. If an existing board is well documented then it can teach you how to make your own with add-ons and subtractions according to your needs. In that sense, a single Lilygo or M5stack board is a fantastic resource and a great test bed as you develop your own custom hardware.

[@SeanLumly]

@@nikthefix8918 Yes, that is how I interpreted your post. Useful for reference design prior to actual production. I was implying same with my original post, using hobbyist as a stand-in for "make one or two things". But the same applies in the process of design.

[@nikthefix8918]

@@SeanLumly Yes good point. Dev boards can become very expensive preliminary 'tools'

[@turrych8987]

can you do a delorean DMC12 cluster?

[@logiclust]

orange "industrial" connector is called a phoenix connector.

[@michaelmilz2282]

I hoped you explain how to Programm T-Display S3 Amoled with SquareLine Studio. 😢

[@VolosProjects]

I will, very soon.

[@davidtivadze6708]

@@VolosProjects Dear Volos, I think that your intention to make SquareLine Studio lessons is really great. this series of videos will have much more interest if you do not "stick" on using studio just for T-Display S3, but to explain general aproaches, particular board independent. Or at least make your point on this particular board, but showing what happens in case of other TFT drivers use.

[@nnoo]

please make a video on tqt-c6 soon

[@ovalwingnut]

You R the "LilyGO Whisperer"

[@JanDahl]

I just thought of a problem unrelated to the video. I'd like to have a few boards at my desk at work displaying some information from our systems. However, I cannot use wifi, but I would have to fetch data through some sort of agent on my work Mac. I'm sure someone has solved this before, it's just that it's literally just now I thought of it.

[@nikthefix8918]

You could use the T-dongle to transmit ESP-NOW packets to slave ESP32 devices. The T-dongle could accept USB-Serial-Virtual-Com messages from an agent resident on the computer - like all those fancy System Monitor Displays do, or you could write an agent which uses Custom USB-HID to forward host system messages to the T-Dongle at a specific vid / pid and then re-forward to your slave devices - like a gateway. There's a fantastic USB-HID library for Windows by Signal 11. It also works with MAC and Linux but I've only used it on Windows. You'll find it as 'hidapi' - originally written by but perhaps not maintained by Alan Ott.

[@JanDahl]

@@nikthefix8918 I thought of something similar about having a local script to fetch data and write to a local file, then a second script to look at the file and serve it via Serial to a directly connected device (probably gonna test this with a spare T-Display S3 when I've time). I asked ChatGPT for an example of the latter; a bit lazy I know. Then I'll "just" have to figure out how to receive the data and put it into some presentation logic :) import pandas as pd import serial import time # Read data from file def read_data_from_file(filename): df = pd.read_csv(filename) data = df.to_dict(orient='records') return data # Serve data via serial def serve_data_serial(data): ser = serial.Serial('/dev/ttyUSB0', 9600) ser.write(bytes(str(data), 'utf-8')) ser.close() if __name__ == "__main__": while True: data = read_data_from_file('sanitized_data.csv') serve_data_serial(data) time.sleep(600) # Serve data every 10 minutes

[@JanDahl]

@@nikthefix8918 I came to a similar conclusion and replied separately with a code example to read data from a file and serve via Serial but it looks like the spam filter thought it was malicious 😅

[@nikthefix8918]

@@JanDahl I also had to edit and resubmit my response 3 times to satisfy 'the algorithm'.

[@JanDahl]

@@nikthefix8918 I look forward to 5 years from now, a KZbin algorithm update flagging us both for these comments and retroactively putting "strikes" on our accounts.

[@tubeDude48]

👍

[@rbyt2010]

Score!

[@slevinshafel9395]

0:16 hahaha

[@lohikarhu734]

Cyborg glasses

[@differentnamedchannel]

Looks like they're sold out already for these boards!

[@AMPProf]

I kinda Want to some how make a GIANT CONSOLE desk of Lil Screen puters But I'M NOT cool Enough to use the aplications. Could go editing A/v But I wanna Look like a haker

[@veasnanoeun235]

I like your bike too 🐵

[@edivollgas719]

still waiting for something waterproof to mount on my bike .....

[@Peter_S_]

Maybe a T-Bike or a T-Bar? The trick is accomodating the variety of bar tube sizes, but I would buy one or more instantly!

[@dogasecco]

that seems to be too laggy. I will skip the version, looking for the next gen

[@michealmorrow1481]

Talk to us, again, when you have source code for these great boards.

[@VolosProjects]

I did not undertand?

[@michealmorrow1481]

@@VolosProjects you have always supplied source code. Now you can't so we can't tinker and learn. Sad that you switched to SquareLine. No more source code sharing. It really lowers the usefulness of your channel. Sad...

[@VolosProjects]

@@michealmorrow1481 I added , internet clock code so yo can check it.

[@gitgudchannel]

Stvarno si majstor

[@VolosProjects]

Hvala kolega

[@peakfilm3465]

What a shame.. The door on open source and playing with the code has been firmly slammed shut! Something to do with $790 / year SquareLine Studio?

[@VolosProjects]

I am using free personal licence of sqareline studio. If you dont need more than 150 widgets, personal licence is enougth.

[@peakfilm3465]

@@VolosProjects Yes but respectfully, how do we 'play' with the code and learn like before if you are only uploading binaries?

[@VolosProjects]

@@peakfilm3465 i added code to git rep from description, you can check it

[@davidtivadze6708]

Lilygo has nice boards. But I really can not understand the purpose of this products. If You are commercial gadget hardware designer you will never use this boards, rather you will develop your particular diagram and hardware prototype model and will develop your gadget based on particular components, which you really need. Not everyone trust, for example, on ESP32 timing capabilities, and people use fpr example special chips for that, for example DS3231. How to use Lilygo "ready to go boards"in this case? Otherwise... to practice coding ESP32? Ok, may be. But why pay USD 60 (!) for that, if you can buy (or make yourself) other prototype boards for practice? And making the case for the prototype board is another crazy story.

[@edwardfletcher7790]

I love the screens, they're the awesome quality you expect from LilyGo That glasses device is a design disaster though with the huge lump in front of the eye....🫤

[@VolosProjects]

Tnx Edward, i still havent play with it for longer time, baterry in my main concern. We will see.