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Comment on The ESP32 Gets a Web Browser by Gino Latino
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The work of [Alun Morris], it was an ESP32-powered Cheap Black Display board, and it was running a web browser.
Lest you imagine that it was sporting the latest and greatest in browser technology, we must disappoint you.
The browser in question is a very basic text mode device, but it did happily retrieve Hackaday, which should be the only test a browser should need to pass.
It can fetch web pages directly, but there’s also a server-side proxy for difficult sites, and for creating image thumbnails.
An ESP32 is a powerful microcontroller, but it’s fair to say it’s not in the league of running a web browser and as far as we can remember this is the first one we’ve seen.