Description
I have been running the Seeed Studio XIAO ESP32C3 device with p1reader for a few days now. I've had no glitches what so ever since my first successful compile and upload. Cold boot, WIFi connection and communication have all been perfect so far.
I assume this setup also could be used with many other ESP32 C3 boards as well.
The hardware setup is really minimal. The only needed external component is a 4.7 kohm pull-up resistor for the RX line. I chose to connect it to the standard TX pin (= GPIO20 or D7).
I have deliberately omitted an extra capacitor on the input power lines. The Seeed Studio XIAO ESP32C3 already have 4.5 µF on-board on its 5V power input, and I believe that is sufficient.
Adding capacitance will inevitably increase the risk of cold boot problems. Especially when used with a power source with less current capacity than the intended USB port. As we must expect with P1 ports.
Other boards with less on-board capacitance might benefit from some external capacitance, but I would be careful adding more than 10µF, and watch out for cold boot problems.
Here is the yaml config that makes it work:
esp32:
board: esp32-c3-devkitm-1
variant: esp32c3
framework:
type: arduino
! IMPORTANT: - Do not use: board: seeed_xiao_esp32c3
or compilation will fail...
uart:
id: uart_bus
baud_rate: 115200
rx_pin:
number: 20 # = GPIO20, D7, RX
inverted: true
And some picks of my implementation:
