Ali Slim is trying to make it simpler to get your code flashed onto an Espressif ESP32 microcontroller with out having to fiddle with a desktop or laptop computer laptop: the ESP Offline Flasher, which does precisely what its identify suggests.

“ESP Offline Flasher is a software specifically designed to program ESP32 microcontrollers, for instance, firmware flashing, with out the necessity for a pc or any exterior software program,” Slim explains. “It shops firmware information on a 4GB inner eMMC chip that may be accessed as a USB Mass Storage gadget, and configuration will be set utilizing a CSV file.”

The ESP Offline Flasher board itself is compact, and — preserving with the theme — is powered by its personal Espressif ESP32-S3 module, although it doesn’t seem to utilize the module’s built-in Wi-Fi or Bluetooth radios. There is a single elongated push-button, which reaches by way of a case to maintain every thing protected, to set off an add to a related goal — which will be powered by the ESP Offline Flasher too, by way of a single cable.

Whereas getting your code on the ESP Offline Flasher does, after all, require interfacing with a pc, subsequent flashes can occur on the push of a button — together with setting configuration settings by loading a comma-separated values (CSV) file onto the board’s built-in eMMC storage.

Slim is at present getting ready to launch the gadget on Crowd Provide at an as-yet unannounced worth level; a GitHub repository had been created for the challenge, however on the time of writing was empty.