Clara HobbsMy 128 Mb flash chips arrived in the mail today. I quickly soldered one onto the ESP-07 module, and found that MicroPython doesn't seem to like having 128 Mb of flash. It works just fine if I set the flash size to 32 Mb when flashing, but only being able to use ¼ of my shiny new flash chip is disappointing. I'll try to figure out how to fix it soon, and if I succeed, I guess I'll have a pull request to send.
128 Mb Flash + MicroPython = ???
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I recently got the sd card driver to work on the ESP8266, so maybe that would be a good alternative for storing all the graphics?
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Oh nice... that is a task I have had on my list to accomplish.
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That would be a good way to store a lot of graphics, though I'm not actually running into storage limits yet. I really just bought the 16 MB flash chips because the 1 MB my ESP-07 modules had was pretty small, and getting the most flash the ESP8266 supports seemed like a good idea. It turns out the ESP SDK doesn't really support more than 4 MB though.
Great to hear that MicroPython supports SD cards on the ESP8266 now though; thanks for getting that working. I'll definitely think about adding an SD card slot if I do need more space.
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