[skopje]

>> The PCB was ordered from JLCPCB, where I opted to have most of the components pre-soldered.

very expensive, you are committed! :)

you should have gone Full Giertz and added a badd little robot arm that turn the pot.

esp32 are really nice: hundreds of code examples that do what you want without having to read too many pages. did you use ARDUINO IDE or idf.py SDK?

[xobs]

My current record is $19 (including shipping!) for two assembled boards of https://github.com/xobs/soundoff which is a little device that shuts off 5V power to a USB-A port when it detects the PC it's connected to goes to sleep.

[announcer4614]

I was actually pleased with how cheap it ended up: less than $20 USD for the board + assembly + every component.

I set ESPHome to use IDF under the hood, you can check out my full ESPHome config for this: https://git.ellis.codes/e/esphome-configs/src/branch/main/vo...

[skopje]

interesting! i tried to order some assembled boards and was told $200+ (US) for only ~20 smd parts.