Inside the New ESP32 Pocket Computer Underground (opens in new tab)

The Table Full of Half-Broken Machines At a flea market outside Asheville, between old CB radios and scratched Xbox 360 controllers, there was a tiny handheld computer sitting on a folding table beside a pile of loose SATA cables. The shell looked heat-warped. Somebody had jammed a Blackberry keyboard into a yellowed 3D printed enclosure with visible glue residue around the edges. A tiny TFT display showed an IRC client scrolling upward one line at a time. The guy selling it kept apologizing ...