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Name: ESP32 VGA Black Edition
SKU: 16839
Price: 15.00 USD
Availability: OutOfStock
Rating: 4.60 (5 reviews)

ESP32 VGA Black Edition

(5 Reviews)

Second version of the limited VGA shield for the ESP32 Mini Kit

Designed by bitluni in Germany

$15.00

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Second version of the limited VGA shield for the ESP32 Mini Kit

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Review Breakdown

Average Ratings

Product: (4.80)

Documentation: (4.20)

Shipping: (4.80)

Communication: (4.60)

Neil | March 21, 2020

Very satisfying!

I enjoyed all of the soldering, which wasn't so difficult. But I had exactly the same problem as bitluni himself when soldering the resistors, solder got into the neighbouring resistor holes and I had to de- and re-solder them to fit the resistors through. Quite tricky!
I recommend placing and soldering a complete line of resistors and not doing it in order of resistor value, that way you'll avoid getting solder in any empty holes!
When I finally got everything soldered, including the esp32 mini supplied by bitluni, I connected it up to a vga monitor and.... it worked, first time!
Fired up all of the arduino examples, and very nice they are too.
Very rewarding and a very nice vga display which works with all of my charity shop vga monitors. I hope I can use this as a dashboard to display values from my esp32 m5stack sensor mesh around the house using esp-now.

Bernd | March 12, 2020

works fine!

Received it today, soldered the resistors and connectors - and the result is amazing. I can see the output of an ESP32 on a VGA monitor.

Janosch | Feb. 13, 2020

A nice kit to play around with.

I bought this product to play around with Video Output. It did not disappoint in that. Yet, it had a few problems. I wanted to access some other pins of the ESP32. This was quite hard, since only a few pins (GND, 3.3V, VCC, 0, 34, 5, 26, 25, 35, 36, 39 and EN) are given by the shield to be used outside of Video Output. Not being able to use some pins like Tx and Rx made it quite hard to expand this project.
I tried SoftwareSerial on some pins, which did not work, but that might have been my fault. Overall an amazing kit to play around with.

It seems I was missing the instructions in the shipped package but I could easily find it online.

Sadly there is barely any documentation for the ESP32lib but that doesn't have anything to do with the actual product, so I'll say its pretty well documented for what we have.

Response from bitluni | Feb. 13, 2020

You can try HardwareSerial on pins 5, 25, 26.
Simply use "Serial1.begin(baudRate, SERIAL_8N1, rxPin, txPin);" in the setup.
Pins 35,36,39 are read only on the ESP32.
All other pins needed for VGA. Pin 0 is important for boot mode selection but you could use it as an output pin as long it isn't pulled anywhere.
I didn't break out RX/TX since it's connected to USB and I didn't want it to interfere with added hardware, but that could be something to improve in future.
There was only a paper version of the instructions in the version 0.1. In order to keep it updated there is only an online version and video tutorial left. The Link is on the label of the antistatic bag (https://bitluni.net/vga).
Please try the ESP32Lib examples. There is code showing every feature with comments. This should give you a good starting point.
The Adafruit GFX wrapper might also make it easier since there is a lot based on that out there.

If you have any other questions feel free to contact me over tindie.
Have fun!

Avraam | Sept. 1, 2019

Great kit. Lot of fun

The board has a professional look. All components are fit easily.
lot of fun and many ways to use it.
My kid appreciated the sweet surprise.

thanks

Wijnand | July 4, 2019

It's fine

Another nice kit by bitluni, easy to assemble.

The bundled ESP32 comes with a pre-flashed demo that allows you to test the board without programming first.

The kit comes with more resistors than you need, so there is plenty of room for error during assembly.

Would recommend, 5 stars :-)

$15.00