The ESP32 Has Quietly Become One of the Most Interesting Hacker Devices Alive

Rainwater was dripping through a hole in the gas station awning onto a plastic patio chair that nobody ever sat in. Beside the propane exchange cage, a teenager in a stained hoodie was soldering wires onto a tiny green board using a USB iron plugged into a battery bank. Cars rolled past twenty feet away without noticing that someone was effectively assembling a wireless computer in public for less than the cost of a fast food combo meal. That feels important somehow. The ESP32 keeps appearing in