Most featured ESP32 per cm² - M5StickC Plus [review]

[@Andrew-ci6nw]

Love my M5 stuff. Great form factor with an ESP32, a screen, and all sorts of other bits. Great vid.

[@notenoughtech]

Thank you. I feel the same about these ;)

[@nikond90ful1]

Thanks for the video Matt. Keep safe and stay well.

[@notenoughtech]

Same to you ;) need more coffee today.

[@juliodemedeiros]

thank you for the review, I bought one for myself, and It sure is a very nice product. I loving it

[@notenoughtech]

I'm glad you have. These things are awesome for prototyping and projects. What are you planning to do with it?

[@PeterScargill]

Yes, it's a lovely little unit - late to the party I'm testing it right now over at my blog - that spectrum viewer is lovely. About the only thing that concerns me right now is - it gets quite warm so I'm not entirely sure it'll do 2 hours on battery.

[@notenoughtech]

Battery use is case specific but it's nice to have a backup

[@EmbraceMaking]

Very cool! Found your post on reddit too. How may input buttons does it have?

[@notenoughtech]

2 buttons. You can do multiple modes (double click, long press)

[@Vr_player918]

How do u get in to the menu

[@skug978]

I bought one for myself, and have been experimenting with it. Overall, a great value and very capable microcontroller + display + sensors. However, it does have a number of flaws (according to sources I've been checking online). (1) The battery never completely turns off, it goes into deep sleep instead, and depletes constantly, i.e. one day it'll die (probably sooner than you'd want). (2) The device isn't 5V-safe for sensors/external electronics that you connect to it. (3) It uses up a lot of the I/O on the internal modules, and so there are less pins available for your own external electronics. [I know you can connect multiple devices in series using I2C, but that means paying for a bunch of I2C kit rather than simpler, cheaper sensors.] (4) Being fairly new to the market, the amount of example code is limited (time of writing: Feb 2021) so it isn't as easy to work with as a more established MCU.

[@notenoughtech]

Perhaps the battery is handled by the interrupt rather than hardware cycle. Could you expand on the 5V safe part? As per support, don't forget that this is ESP32 so most of the projects out there would be compatible, especially that the built-in components are listed with model numbers and you can source the libraries for it.

[@skug978]

I'm not an expert, just reading other people's comments, e.g. on Tinkerfarm website, on the m5stack community - Web searching for "M5stickC 5V safe" brings up some material I've seen.

[@TOMTOM-nh3nl]

Thank You

[@ronm6585]

Nice, thanks Mat.

[@notenoughtech]

I suppose to do Alexa today but got distracted

[@ronm6585]

@@notenoughtech Lol, oh well. Tomorrow is another day. :-)

[@notenoughtech]

Yeah especially that I'm on holiday now

[@leroycasterline1122]

I got an M5StickC-Plus based on your video (thank you, cool device!) and spent far too much time trying to get into the menu. I don't believe you mentioned that it wasn't running the stock firmware (or if you did I missed it). In any event, you might mention that (and provide a pointer to the code if available).

[@notenoughtech]

I believe I mentioned the m5burner for firmware updates. I'm glad you got it working

[@AJB2K3]

The grove port is officially a digital io/i2c port however, You can run 2 servos on it

[@notenoughtech]

Thanks ;)

[@BillBrutzman]

Fabulous!

[@iakovoscinematographer]

i have a code that was programmed for the older version of stick c. Will it work the same on the PLUS?

[@notenoughtech]

Possibly. It all depends on the code. Especially if you use hardware and hardware specific libraries. these can change with revisions

[@B33DTech]

can i have this code?

[@notenoughtech]

I'll be reworking it into a little more usable one as it was made in a UI. I have learned few more tricks so I want to add ETA info and maybe picture look up -not sure if resolution makes sense yet

[@yes_man_lol]

Its very good value for its price but most of us who will watch this video, the user groups most likely will find it very limiting, I would suggest people get the m5stack core2. It would be good for people who have been to microbit and other esp boards but not comfortable to handle too many pins and complicity like esp32 dev or m5stack.

[@notenoughtech]

Size could be a good advantage. Now that we have stamp it's even smaller PCB to play with :)

[@yes_man_lol]

@@notenoughtech yep! i almost forgot about it, the size is indeed good point to consider. Thanks for the good reviews as always!

[@laranja3]

We need a tutorial for the ESP32 Marauder M5StickC Plus! For dummies! pls :D

[@laranja3]

Can you help me?

[@notenoughtech]

I'm sorry I' not able to make custom tutotials

[@BRAD-ROTT]

Hello from France! ^:^ You think it's possible to turn transparent the screen by removing the reflective sheet? @^:^@ I have seen on KZbin some hacks (write on the "search": turn transparent lcd) Thanks buddy and take care ^:^

[@notenoughtech]

If it's an LCD screen (and I believe it is) then you can peel it off quite easily

[@weerobot]

M Stuck..lol

[@notenoughtech]

I get stuck a lot :D