Flipper At Home

bought one

For 2-3 evenings I was working on "perfecting" the look of the menu on the small display, until I realised that the flipper zero has four menu styles (that I know of) https://chaos.social/@davedarko/110255372561304158 . I got to a point where I was very pleased, having a "128x64" pixel area in orange, centered in a slightly brighter orange 160x80 area, which is the display size. 

The other day I saw the LilyGO T-embed price reduced to 28€ with shipping, I had my eye on it for a while and decided to buy it as a second candidate. Keep in mind that it usually goes for 42€ instead. The external dimensions are almost the same and I can use the 320 x 170 as a 160 x 85 display by just doubling up the pixels.

Today I received two ESP32-C3 boards, one with native USB CDC controller connected to the USB plug and one with a CH343 connected, plus two LCD boards, because why not, they were cheap! (I also got that fish console from prev post, why did I buy that??)

I'm a bit irritated on why there are two versions, why would you want a board with an extra serial converter? To be able to use the GPIO pins 18 and 19, which are the USB pins for the integrated CDC? Well let's see what and how many pins I need then.

I found this pinout diagram and expanded it, so it shows what pins are the LEDs connected to. 

Here are the boards again:
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004539320086.html

While browsing through "handheld console" I found this weird "plug into tv" consoles and it definitely has the "XYZ at home" vibe.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005002426662072.html