From unboxing a touchscreen dev board to vibe-coding a full WiFi auditor
From unboxing a touchscreen dev board to vibe-coding a full WiFi auditor A parcel landed at my door from Nextion Systems : the new Open Nextion — an ESP32-based board with a built-in capacitive touch display. Came in two flavors (3.5" and 2.8"), plus a speaker, a dual-microphone board, and an IO adapter. The kind of package that's begging to be turned into something it was never meant to do. So, naturally, I did exactly that. What's actually in the box Before any of the fun started, here's what the Open Nextion package shipped with: Two Open Nextion boards — 3.5" and 2.8" variants Onboard speaker Dual-microphone board (for stereo capture / wake-word work) IO adapter for breaking out the rest of the GPIO The board itself is generous on connectivity: USB-C , a battery connector with a real RTC , I2C, UART , a camera interface, SD card , plus mic and speaker pins. It's basically a tiny computer with a touchscreen bol...
