… This board has some pretty decent hardware, too, as you get an ESP32 with a 2.8-inch 320x240 ILI9341 TFT display and a resistive XPT2046 touchscreen. It's not a high-resolution panel by any stretch, but for displaying text, icons, and status information, it gets the job done. …
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… Starting around $35 directly from Elecrow, it's a way to get on the mesh without dedicating hardware to it, and if the mesh experiment doesn't take, you've still got a perfectly serviceable ESP32 touchscreen for the same kinds of projects where you'd normally reach for a Cheap Yellow Display . …
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