The Everything Remote
I want a remote for my gopro...and for my lights...and for my music...and for a lot of other things. This begs the question--why don't I just make one remote that can be adapter to control almost everything? So that's this.
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I hate the xiao.
So I decided to use a xiao esp32s3 plus for this project. It's got a lot of gpio and it's cheap, seems like a good idea. It wasn't.
There's no footprint available for it, apparently. The rest of the xiao's have...some form of a footprint, but not the s3 plus. I've spent an hour making this stupid footprint work.
Here's a concept of my basic idea:
It's simple. 4 buttons, a display, and then gold fingers on the bottom. It's basically a dockable esp32 remote. I might make it so that the 4 buttons are on a detachable secondary PCB using half-height headers, but I'm not sure. Swappable controls would make this a dream to use though. Imagine a remote you can dock on your desk and swap the buttons on it out for a potentiometer, then use it as a volume knob. Sounds kinda awesome. Might be better to just make it so the dock has a pot built in, though.....we'll see how it ends up.
It should end up pretty neat, though!
Here's an example of a dock I want:
Super simple. Basically just adds a potentiometer. It'll also do charging of the Remote's battery, and communicate to the host computer. Super simple, but cool :3
Raygen Rupe 🚀
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1/15/2026 - I hate the xiao.
So I decided to use a xiao esp32s3 plus for this project. It's got a lot of gpio and it's cheap, seems like a good idea. It wasn't.
There's no footprint available for it, apparently. The rest of the xiao's have...some form of a footprint, but not the s3 plus. I've spent an hour making this stupid footprint work.
Here's a concept of my basic idea:
It's simple. 4 buttons, a display, and then gold fingers on the bottom. It's basically a dockable esp32 remote. I might make it so that the 4 buttons are on a detachable secondary PCB using half-height headers, but I'm not sure. Swappable controls would make this a dream to use though. Imagine a remote you can dock on your desk and swap the buttons on it out for a potentiometer, then use it as a volume knob. Sounds kinda awesome. Might be better to just make it so the dock has a pot built in, though.....we'll see how it ends up.
It should end up pretty neat, though!
Here's an example of a dock I want:
Super simple. Basically just adds a potentiometer. It'll also do charging of the Remote's battery, and communicate to the host computer. Super simple, but cool :3