The Dirty Dozen - Part Four - unreachable exotica
I saw a beautiful shiny bauble in the online shop that turned out to be unobtainium!
Recently Great Scott did an AliExpress based video where he was trawling through Chinese datasheets trying to gain access to a particular piece of hardware.
Oh, Great Scott - how much time I have wasted in this exact same situation!
Case in point, a lovely looking Air105 based module. Would I have bought it in hindsight? Yes! Who doesn't like unobtainium and unicorns??
For around $5 I received a very impressive module AND a camera to suit. Yummy!
And look at those specs!
Of course, unicorns may fly very fast, but first you have to catch one and communicate with it - not so easy!
The main issues for me revolved around having to:
1. learn a new programming language to talk to this thing (lua) as well as,
2. installing Windows (when I use Linux exclusively) and finally,
3. the majority of the support/software is Chinese based as well!
After much faffing about and grumbling I had to eventually concede defeat. I am going to check in from time to time to see if some geniuses have made this lovely piece of hardware accessible for dumbos like myself (e.g. via an Arduino IDE based library)
Until then - I'll enjoy looking at it.
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