r/esp32

ESP32 - WiFi-enabled microcontrollers from Espressif

Founded December 2015 · Public — anyone can post

Updated Oct 5

ESP32 is a series of low cost, low power system on a chip microcontrollers with integrated Wi-Fi and dual-mode Bluetooth. The ESP32 series employs either a Tensilica Xtensa LX6, Xtensa LX7 or a RiscV processor, and both dual-core and single-core variations are available. It includes in-built antenna switches, RF balun, power amplifier, low-noise receive amplifier, filters, and power management modules as well.

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Tracking since Sep 6 · growth spans are the real distance between snapshots, not rounded windows. Posts/day is measured from the community’s own newest posts on Reddit, not from what Prowlo happens to crawl.

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r/esp32 has 219,839 members as of our most recent crawl on Oct 5. Prowlo re-checks tracked communities on a rolling schedule, so this figure moves rather than sitting frozen at whatever it was when a scraper last ran.

Is r/esp32 growing?

Over the last ≈29 days r/esp32 changed by +2.9% — a gain of 6.2K members. We compare against the nearest snapshot we actually hold and state the real span rather than rounding it to a clean "30 days".

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r/esp32 was founded in December 2015 and is a public — anyone can post community. Age matters: an older community with steady growth has survived Reddit's moderation churn; a young one with a spike may not.

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