F32 ESP32 board
Shares rank 18 of 28 microcontrollers by recommenders
Small, cheap ESP32 board with enough power for IoT projects, praised for its documentation.
Small, cheap ESP32 board with enough power for IoT projects, praised for its documentation.
10 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 8
- criticize it
- 2
- approval share
- 80%
Recommended in 1 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 8 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 4 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 1 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Very small form factor
“hugely impressive project of course, it makes any board I've tried to design/assemble look impossibly huge”
Comment from 21 Nov 2025 in “Show HN: F32 – An Extremely Small ESP32 Board” “Cheap, small and enough power”
Comment from 21 Nov 2025 in “Show HN: F32 – An Extremely Small ESP32 Board”
Other microcontrollers people recommend
The four most recommended other microcontrollers, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ESP32 | 190 | 35 | 84% | 12 | 5 yrs3 owners | Approved |
| Arduino boards | 81 | 73 | 53% | 12 | 16 yrs7 owners | — |
| Raspberry Pi Pico | 72 | 16 | 82% | 12 | — | Approved |
| Raspberry Pi RP2350 | 47 | 13 | 78% | 11 | — | Approved |
| F32 ESP32 boardThis page | 8 | 2 | 80% | 1 | — | — |
What people said
7 of the 10 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Cheap, small and enough power”
“It could be even smaller without that USB C port and have more GPIO pads.”
“hugely impressive project of course, it makes any board I've tried to design/assemble look impossibly huge”
“This is great, well done!”
“very useful for a lot of IoT projects”
“antenna definitely needs some improvement”
“your documentation looks great at a glance”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.