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illicium on Nov 28, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Arduboy – A game system the size of a credit card

Bluetooth/WiFi doesn't require embedded Linux. The venerable ESP8266 can be easily programmed through the Arduino IDE.

eltoozero on Nov 28, 2016 [–]

"Venerable" implies some worthiness.

ESP8266 is a hacker friendly wifi gadget, for $2, but otherwise garbage.

You get what you pay for.

Also it's wifi only, not bluetooth.

blhack on Nov 28, 2016 | | [–]

In what ways is the ESP garbage?

illicium on Nov 28, 2016 | | [–]

ESP32, the successor to the ESP8266, has both WiFi and Bluetooth, but it's fairly expensive.

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