So lets think what we need for our replacement logic Board.
First of all. We need a Brian for the Board.
I choosed an Espressif ESP32. Because of the small space inside the Bike light we need to take care.
Thats why i choosed the smallest possible board for the Mikrocontroller. The ESP32 Pico D4
The Advantages of this Microcontroller:
- Wifi - it comes with an easy to use Wifi Stack
- BLE: Bluetooth. You may use Bluetooth and BLE
- Dualcore: You have 240 MHz Dualcore: So more than enough for a bikelight
- a ultra low Power ULP Co Processor
Now the downside of this Microcontroller are:
- It is not easy to solder by hand.
- limited space: Only 4 Mbytes of Space
So how can we get around these downsides.
Recently a lot of PCB manufacturers offers nowadays Soldering of the boards as well. This helps you to break the hassle of soldering such small Reflow devices.
For my needs this is a perfect solution.
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