While they differ a lot in terms of functionality, you can combine the IoT-centric ESP32 boards with the all-powerful Raspberry Pi SBC family to build some truly remarkable DIY projects.

To achieve this he created Fade, a custom programming language/framework for controlling LED animations from the ESP32. Fade is written for addressable RGB LEDs like the Neopixel/WS2812.

We have to admit a soft spot for LED panels here at Hackaday, and given the ESP32’s power we look forward to writing up the expected projects that will come our way using this library.