LILYGO T-Display-S3 ESP32-S3 1.9 inch ST7789 LCD Display TTGO Development Board Unsoldered Pin Version

Everything on the board works well. Turned this into a BTC Nerd Miner, it's full assembled, I just had to flash the software onto the board, super easy. Now I have a Bitcoin Lottery Machine, it'll likely never find a block, but it's neat start to dive into Bitcoin & Bitcoin mining. ~$25 board for a chance to win $250k+ in BTC every 10mins.

Excellent system for those wanting to learn ESP-32 with a nice reasonable display. Examples on Youtube are all you really need for advise. I programmed using but Arduino IDE and Visual Studio Code.

Nothing wrong with the product per-se. Its a great little package of processor and screen. Has plenty of GPIOs available and USB-C, also a battery port which I didn't use. The screen is bright and clear.That said I had big troubles getting it working in the arduino IDE. Firstly I had to drop the ESP core software back to v2.x to get the ESP32-S3 working with the FASTLED library and secondly I had to use a sperate branch of the TFT-eSPI library to get it working with ESP32-S3.Hopefully thats helpful to anyone having issues. I also expect these library issues will clear up eventually.I cant comment to other IDE - I just use Arduino.

Excellent product

Check the circuit diagram before you purchase. Notice these complaints that I have:1. There's no ON button for the battery, the battery is always connected, there's a pin you can drive low to turn off the unit. The only way to turn ON the unit is to plug in through USB.2. There's no access to the 5V power rail (or otherwise, an input to the AP2122K-3.3V regulator) at all. So that means there's no good way of using any DC/DC buck converter to power this unit. Also, remember that if you tried to connect to VDD3V3 instead, the whole chip will have more noise.3. If you mount the board to a circuit board, then there's no way to disconnect the battery since the connector is on the bottom and pointed towards the inside of the board. The battery connection is also not available on the header pins.So with these flaws in mind, please consider the M5StickC, M5Stack, or Adafruit Feather instead.

None of the software provided by the manufacturer for the unit that it's even demoed using works. All I wanted to do is get the clock working on it just as his picture in the advertisement and it does not work straight out of the box or with support self after 3 weeks. If I write code for this it does work and I can get any of the other stuff I want to do but the simple clock with weather function is all I bought this for.

I was having trouble getting the computer to recognize it. Finally figured out that if I help the boot button in while I plugged it into the computer that it would see it.

I keep seeing a "A fatal error occurred: This chip is ESP32 not ESP32-S3. Wrong --chip argument? " error regardless of my web ide or VM