How to install CircuitPython on the Lilygo ESP32 S2 board.

The Lilygo ESP32 S2 board can run CircuitPython. In this video I am going to show you how to install CircuitPython on the inexpensive and very popular Lilygo ESP32 S2 board. The procedure is not difficult if you know what you have to do, and it won’t take us more than 10 minutes. Let’s start.
🛒 Board: educ8s.tv/part/esp32s2
💻 CH340 Drivers: learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/...
💻 ESP Web Flasher: nabucasa.github.io/esp-web-fl...
💻 CircuitPython: circuitpython.org/board/lilyg...
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As you can see the procedure requires a lot of steps. The first step is to install the CH340 driver to your computer. If you look closely at the board, you can see that the board uses a USB to Serial chip, the CH340 chip. We need to use this chip to change the bootloader of the board, but in order to use it we need to install a driver to our computer. Many operating systems automatically recognize this chip when we plug the device in our computer.
Before doing so, there is another important thing to consider. The board has 2 groups of dip switches. We are interested in this one.
The first and 3d switch must be turned on and the 2nd and 4th must be turned off, just like this. With the dip switches positioned like this we enable the CH340 chip of the board. Now we plug in the board in our computer and we go to the device manager. If your computer recognizes the board, you are ready to move to the next step. If not, you need to install the CH340 chip drivers before going to the next step and then check that the device appears in the device manager. I will provide links to the drivers in the video description

[@Educ8s]

I hope you took away lots from this video and you managed to get your ESP32 S2 board to work. Let me know below!
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[@DynamicSun]

is it possible to let the esp32 communicate with higher rate over usb, higher than uart like real usb?

[@junaid_qadir]

Hi, how can I install circuitpython with Feather m0 RFM95 LoRa node? I would really appreciate your direction.

[@mixerKLG]

Привет! Рад снова видеть твои видео! Так держать!

[@piconano]

Running Python on a microcontroller is wast of speed and RAM for me.
You do you.

[@Educ8s]

Yes that's true. The intepreter requires a lot of resources. I just want to test this new platform to see if it is easier for beginners. I haven't concluded yet which path is better for a beginner, Arduino or CircuitPython/MicroPython.

[@dekipet]

Well, it is not full Python.