3PCS 30Pins USB-C ESP-WROOM-32 Development Board, 2.4GHz Dual Mode WiFi+Bluetooth Dual Core Microcontroller for Arduino IDE, Support AP/STA/AP+STA, CH340 Chip

I bought these and thought they were broken. Plugged it into my MacBook’s usb c port and no power, nothing worked. Then a read the product description. Ran a usb a to c dongle and it worked perfectly. These are a great board.

I got WLED up on one of these and it seemed to work great. I then unplugged from the pc and moved it to its new home. I could not connect to the device! I put it back into my office (which is right under one of my Ubiquity AP’s) and it connected right away.Where the ESP32 is mounted, is only 20ft away from my AP with line of site, and it is barley connected. It’s signal is so weak that it drops connection multiple times throughout the day.I was really hoping this would work for me. But now I need to find a new ESP board that has a better Wi-Fi antenna.

Good

The range is awful, and even if the range is OK, you'll end up having weird issues due to power control with something like ESPHome, getting weird errors like "Auth failed" and such when it should work just fine. Avoid this board.

Beware, this is not a compliant USB Type-C device as it does not have the 5.1K resistors on CC1 and CC2 necessary in order for it to receive the standard 5v@500ma over a USB-C to USB-C cable. This means the USB-C model will only receive power when connected using a USB-A to USB-C adapter cable and can not be used directly with a USB-C port on a computer or power supply. Otherwise, it functions the same as any other ESP32 of this form factor.

It seams like a half decent ESP32. Pins did come bent but they worked fine. They need to do better soldering as the headers are a bit crooked but overall a great product if you are on the cheap. I did a test with getting D2 to light up with Arduino IDE and then after loading micropython. Pycharm is able to connect to it and load python scripts and turn on the led as well. If pins were not bent then would be 5 stars.

These didn’t work at all with any usb-c to usb-c cables … I finally got it recognized after plugging it into a usb-c to usb-c cable with a usb-a to usb-c dongle attached … which totally defeated the purpose of going usb-c in the first place, so I ended up returning these. Ah well, back to usb-micro for my micros … life goes on

These are not USB-C capable. They DO have a USB-C form factor plug, however when plugged into USB-C ports directly with a USB-C cable, they fail to negotiate or provide hardware IDs. Yes, I have the drivers installed. When I use a usb 3.0 to USB-C cable, they work just fine. I've tried with multiple laptops and multiple USB-C cables (Mac and Windows).Otherwise, these are decent boards and they work and do what an ESP32 board is supposed to do.