The Desk of Ladyada - S3 & Sample Sunday

Adafruit Industries

This weekend we spent most of the days outside, but we did get to one new board! We already make a Feather with an ESP32-S3 8MB module. Espressif recently sent us a few reels of ESP32-S3 mini modules with 4M flash and 2MB PSRAM, so we are spinning a new version of the Feather for this module. It's pin compatible but since the modules look so alike we ran a new PCB with silkscreen to indicate which you have. We also got a big bag of samples we're testing out -we can show you what we got and whether we'll be stocking them! The Great Search - Alternative replacement for our go-to 3.3V regulator https://www.digikey.com/short/vcqct7jj The chip shortage is the gift that keeps not giving! Our next shipment of our go-to 3.3V LDO, the AP2112K-3.3 is delayed and we use a LOT of these chips - over a thousand a day. Not only do we use it for all our dev boards as a regulator to take USB or Lipo input and drop it down to 3.3V, but it's also on almost all of our breakouts as a regulator that can take 3 to 5V and provide 3.3V output no matter which is used. For that reason we need it to have very low drop-out. To keep our items in stock, we could change the lower-power breakouts to use a less-current-output version of the AP2112K (500~600mA) and stretch out our current stock! #deskofladyada #thegreatsearch #adafruit Visit the Adafruit shop online - http://www.adafruit.com ----------------------------------------- LIVE CHAT IS HERE! http://adafru.it/discord Adafruit on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adafruit Subscribe to Adafruit on YouTube: http://adafru.it/subscribe New tutorials on the Adafruit Learning System: http://learn.adafruit.com/ -----------------------------------------