Grid Connect Inc. is Espressif Systems’ franchised distributor in North America. Hence, the collaboration between the two companies in organizing and hosting  two two-day developer courses focused on ESP32.  

The first one will be held in Chicago, on October 15-16 (Chicago Marriott Naperville, 1801 N. Naper Blvd, Naperville, IL 60563, +1 630 505 4900). 

The second two-day course will be held in San Francisco, on October 18-19 (Courtyard San Francisco Downtown, 299 2nd Street, San Francisco, CA 94105, +1 415 947 0700).

These hands-on, in-depth trainings will focus on building end-products using the Espressif IoT Development Framework (ESP-IDF). Additionally, we shall demonstrate how to develop software for the ESP32 chip and the powerful Wi-Fi+BT/BLE MCU modules built around it: ESP32-WROOM-32, ESP32-WROVER and ESP32-PICO-D4. ESP-IDF is the official development framework for the ESP32 chip and the modules built around it. These 2-day trainings will cover the latest version of ESP-IDF (v3.1) and will be given by Espressif engineers.

The agenda covers a wide range of topics and includes:

• ESP32 Overview

     - Hardware overview

     - Software overview

• Building a product with ESP32

     - Hello World (Development host setup)

     - Buttons and LEDs

     - Network configuration

     - OTA

     - Manufacturing tools

• Going in depth

     - Firmware anatomy and bootup

     - Memory architecture

     - Security architecture

     - Wi-Fi subsystem

     - Bluetooth subsystem

• Power Management

     - ULP and Deep-sleep

     - DFS and Light-sleep

• Debugging and Characterizations

     - Using GDB

     - Crash debugging

     - Heap and stack overflows

     - Application Tracing and SystemView

     - Performance benchmarking

     - Memory footprint analysis

• SDK Frameworks (coverage will be based on participants’ interests)

     - Apple HomeKit (requires MFI license)

     - Audio SDK

     - ESP-MESH SDK

     - Amazon: FreeRTOS

All participants will receive a development kit (ESP32-DevKitC) as part of the course. In addition, other ESP32-based development boards, such as the ESP-WROVER-KIT-VB, ESP32-PICO-KIT, ESP32-LyraT, ESP32-Sense Kit and ESP32-Meshkit-Sense, will be demonstrated.

Attendance Prerequisites:

• Participants need to bring their laptops (Mac or LINUX recommended) and be comfortable with embedded C development.
• ESP-IDF v3.1 should be already installed on your notebook and you should be able to compile the “Hello World” example: https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esp-idf/en/v3.1/get-started/index.html
• A “C” text editor for writing programs is also necessary (e.g. Eclipse): https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esp-idf/en/v3.1/get-started/eclipse-setup.html

Classes will be from 8:30am until 4:30pm , with continental breakfast and lunch being provided on each day of the course.

You can sign up for these courses here: https://www.gridconnect.com/products/espressif-esp32-developer-training