Okay so cool! First hardware project in a long long time.

I started off plugging the damn ESP32 and the other stuff into my breadboard, no lights turned on, my laptop didn’t recognize it, so I lowkey kinda panicked because I thought my ESP32 broke before I even got to use it. I scouraged thru the mess of cables in a random ass drawer in my house to find a USB-A to USB-C/Micro-B/A cable, and that somehow worked despite my $30 official Apple cable not working (idk i searched it up, apparently it has something to do with like standards). so that worked.

problem: i have a mac, and i could not be bothered to install stuff on my thinkpad running arch btw, so uh i grabbed a cheap 2-cent USB-A to C adapter i bought for Daydream, and uh yeah it worked, except for some reason, no matter how hard i tried, the motor only vibrated, no rotation. i thought it was broken, and tried a diff one. didn’t work also, did some measuring with multimeter, nothing worked. so i just gave up and hoped for the best usign a diff tutorial, and i recoded everything, and it worked somehow? weird shit idk….
but yeah thumbs up emoji gah