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Carnegie Mellon's Object-Agent Twins (OATs), a UIST 2026 research project, clip a Waveshare ESP32-S3 e-paper board and sensors onto everyday objects and show a Gemini-generated character whose mood follows the sensor readings. No design files have been released.
Read the story →Espressif's esp-pqc is an Apache-2.0 ESP-IDF component, introduced on 14 October 2026. It adds ML-KEM and ML-DSA in software for hybrid TLS 1.3 and an experimental post-quantum boot check. It requires ESP-IDF v6.0 or later, and Espressif says it is for evaluation only, not production use.
Hack the North organiser Nicholas Ficara has open-sourced the ESP32 badge built for 1,750 hackers at the 18 September event (KiCad files, GPL-3.0 C firmware with a Lua runtime, and a WebAssembly emulator) and detailed what went wrong across EVT, DVT and PVT.
Adafruit's CircuitPython 11.0.0-alpha.1, a pre-release from September 24, puts 11.0.0 in place of 10.4.0 as the next stable release. It adds hmac and hardwarekey modules and an RP2350 alarm module, and removes the broadcom, litex and renode ports. Stable remains 10.3.1.
The ESPARGOS project's GPL-licensed ESP-SDR firmware reads raw I/Q samples from an undocumented path in the ESP32 family's own receiver. It captures at up to 80 MS/s in bursts and comes with a browser spectrum tool. The ESP32-S3 adds gap-free decimated streaming, and the ESP32-S31 adds experimental streaming.
Samuel Reynolds' GPL-3.0 LakeShark firmware, now at v2.15, uses a USB RTL-SDR Blog V3 or V4 to make LilyGO's ESP32-P4 T-Display P4 decode P25 Phase I, FM/AM, POCSAG and 1090 MHz ADS-B, and adds MeshCore over the onboard SX1262. P25 Phase II and HackRF support remain experimental.
ZeroWire Robotics is crowdfunding Q8botOne, a 120 x 70 x 70 mm ESP32-C3 quadruped with eight DYNAMIXEL XL330 actuators, on Crowd Supply: a $199 kit (actuators not included) or a $599 assembled robot, with an estimated ship date of March 24, 2027.
Espressif's Arduino-ESP32 4.0.0-RC1, a pre-release dated Sept 23, 2026, rebases the Arduino core on ESP-IDF v6.1 with esp-zigbee-sdk v2.0, ESP Matter 1.6, a Bluetooth refactor and multi-rate USB audio. 3.3.12 remains the stable release.
Hat & Hammer's OpenMote, a programmable ESP32-S3 remote in a Wii Remote-style shell, had raised $202,165 from 1,502 backers on Crowd Supply as of Oct 20, 2026, at $99 assembled or $59 PCB-only, with an estimated ship date of Feb 28, 2027.
TinyGo 0.43.0, released October 9, 2026, adds the ESP32-H2 and four new boards, I2S on nRF52xxx and ESP32xx, LEDC PWM on ESP32xx, nRF52840 USB mass storage, precise GC layouts on all platforms and a -trimpath flag for reproducible builds.
Waveshare's ESP32-C5-Touch-LCD-3.5 puts an ESP32-C5-WROOM-1U module, a 320x480 IPS touchscreen, an IMU, an RTC, audio and an optional battery and BF3901 camera on one board, listed at US$31.99 to US$35.99 but out of stock as of October 20, 2026.
M5Stack's ToughC5 IoT Dev Kit (K162) is in stock at $49.90 USD: an ESP32-C5HR8 controller with 2.4/5 GHz Wi-Fi 6, BLE 5, Zigbee/Thread, a 2.0-inch 853-nit touchscreen, RS485 with 6-24V input and M12 cable glands, in a housing without an IP rating.
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