ESP-IDF and ESP32-C5 Workshop
Welcome to the Espressif IoT Development Framework (ESP-IDF) workshop!
About this workshop
By participating in this workshop, you will gain a deeper understanding of how the Espressif IoT Development Framework (ESP-IDF) and ESP32-C5 System on a Chip (SoC) work. Through a number of hands-on assignments covering a range of essential skills, you will learn to create even better and more efficient IoT applications for your projects!
Specifically, in this workshop we will go through the installation of the ESP-IDF framework and ESP-IDF plugin for VSCode. Then we will move on to creating our own project, which we will try to build, upload and debug. In the following chapters, we will learn how to use components in your projects, blink with addressable LEDs, configure ESP-IDF, connect to Wi-Fi and finally some tricks for working with the low-power core that is part of the ESP32-C5 SoC.
This workshop will certainly bring a lot of interesting information even to those who use other chips from the ESP32 family. However, keep in mind that not all chips support everything that ESP32-C5 supports!
Companion reference projects
This workshop has companion ESP-IDF projects following the same assignment numbering (plus an optional protocols/TLS parity example). They are included in this repository under examples/C5/ — browse them directly on GitHub or clone the repo to build locally. See examples/C5/README.md for usage instructions.
Agenda
If you have met the prerequisites, we can start with the individual chapters:
- Introduction: ESP-IDF Presentation: Initial introduction to our ESP-IDF framework, followed by basic information about the ESP32-C5 chip and the devkit on which this tutorial will be demonstrated.
- Assignment 1: Install ESP-IDF and VSCode: Installing the necessary tools to start development.
- Assignment 2: Create a New Project with Components: How to efficiently create, structure and organize a project.
- Assignment 3: Connect to Wi-Fi: The absolute basics for most IoT projects.
- Assignment 4: NVS (Non-Volatile Storage): Storing persistent data.
- Assignment 5: Wi-Fi provisioning: More detailed work with Wi-Fi: setting up and configuring Wi-Fi networks.
- Assignment 6: Experiments with low-power core: Demonstration of working with low-power core for applications where energy consumption is an important factor.
Prerequisites
To follow this workshop, you will need both hardware and software equipment.
Required hardware:
- Computer running Linux, Windows or macOS operating system
- ESP32-C5-DevKitC or ESP32-C5-DevKitM
- USB cable (supporting power + data) compatible with the devkit above
- Visual Studio Code with ESP-IDF plugin (installation is described in the next section)
Required software:
- Visual Studio Code
- ESP-IDF plugin for VS Code
- ESP BLE Prov app:
- Android: ESP BLE Prov
- iOS: ESP BLE Prov
Time Requirements
Estimated time: 180 min
Feedback
If you have any feedback about the workshop, feel free to start a new discussion on GitHub.
Conclusion
We hope that the workshop will bring you knowledge that will serve as a solid foundation for your future projects. Thank you for the time and effort you devoted to the workshop, and we look forward to the projects you will create with our chips in the future!