Urrgh
FINALLY STARTING ANOTHER PROJECT!!
I’m planning to

Get it working on a breadboard (i.e: make the website to upload photos live, make sure it works and displays on the screen actually)
Then make a PCB for it on KiCad, and then have it fabricated
Finally make a 3d printed enclosure for it with the buttons to reset, turn it on and off on the side

As of right now…
I’m just trying to get the screen to display something! I was planning on using an ESP32 C3, the tiny one that’s very mini, I already soldered the pins to it, then many hours of trying to troubleshoot it brought me to the fact that, yes, the board itself was freakcing defectiveevevas (online shopping is jsut gambling atp)

I’m using platformIO as my development environment, so it was kind of cool not needing to download a bunch of libraries into the arduino IDE, and setting up a benchmark blink led test onto the ESP…

Thing is…
Yaknow, linking Lookout for hardware projects is kinda odd because you kinda just have to trust that the seemingly afk time in the lookout is actually me building the physical thing IRL 😭 I hope these pictures are proof enough…

And like…
I was following some youtube tutorial of someone flashing an image onto the esp, but he was using BARE HEXADECIMAL data to individually light up pixels bruh, I had to spend a while looking up an LCD image translator, and looking up something that worked on mac, and I don’t think I’ll use this method in the future 😭 I’m going to look up a bunch more on how the TFT works because it’s not as abstracted and beginner friendly as I thought, or maybe I’m just stupid tryna follow someone translating bare hex code or smth 😭

In the end, the code stopped giving errors, I translated an image into hex, plopped in the data, andddddd-

NOTHING
I mean- not nothing, just, a white screen… Urgh, I need to learn more on how this thing actually works instead of blindly following wiring and code!
Yeah taht’s it… See ya tomorrow! (probably)