In case you missed it, the big news is that a minimal Arduino core is up and working on the ESP32. There’s still lots left to do, but the core functionality — GPIO, UART, SPI, I2C, and WiFi ...

This consists of different variations of the Nano, such as the Nano ESP32, Nano 33 BLE ... by the Italian electronics company, the Arduino Uno essentially serves as the face of the brand.

The next step in that process of improvement may be here now as well, with this project which turns the ESP32 into a USB host. USB is not a native feature on all microcontrollers or even Arduino ...