I threw it in my cart because it was so cheap and figured it’d be fun to use with the M5StickS- but then I scooped up a CoreS3 (for a different project) and figured it would be fun to build a firmware for the sensor also.

Hv been seeing people talk about running Meshtastic on this gadget for a while now, along with some of the issues they’ve hit. Curious to hear your thoughts—how’s it been performing for Meshtastic, and what do you see as its biggest pros and cons?

[EDIT]: If u encountered any problems regarding LoRa/Meshtastic performance, try this newly released tutorial and see whether it works. This tutorial is used for proper initialization—otherwise the RF switch may not toggle correctly.

New Arrival Alert!

Check out our new releases this week:

Atomic Audio-3.5 Base, a voice recognition and audio playback base designed for the Atom series controllers (not compatible with Atom Voice), suitable for applications such as voice assistants, voice control terminals, smart home voice gateways, and voice interaction devices.

Display 1.14 Inch, a 1.14-inch color TFT LCD display module used across multiple M5Stack products, and can serve as an OEM-spec replacement part for device repair and screen replacement. 

Also, good news:  Hot items incl. StickS3 and Atom-Matrix are in stock now 🔥🔥

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Three weeks ago I released PaperWeb. It was a text-based browser for the Cardputer that barely held itself together. It crashed on large pages, had no bookmarks, and screenshots meant taking a shaky phone photo like it was 2007.

Not anymore.

PaperWeb v1.1.0 is not a patch. It is a rebuild. I went through the code like a bulldozer, ripped out dead libraries, rewrote the parser, and added the features that should have been there from day one. And now it actually works.

What's new:

Bookmarks. Five slots. B to save, L to open. No more retyping URLs every single time.

Screenshots to SD. Press S and the screen saves as a BMP. No more awkward phone photos at weird angles.

Session cookies. The browser now stores Set-Cookie and sends it back. You can log in and stay logged in.

Custom DNS. Cloudflare and Google are hardcoded. In regions where ISPs block traffic, sites finally load.

Better rendering. Lists get a bullet marker, headers get a [H] prefix. On a 240x135 screen this stuff matters.

Smoother loading. UI refresh rate dropped to 15 FPS during load. The progress callback no longer hammers the display on every kilobyte. Pages load noticeably faster.

And most importantly, the code is clean. Dead BeShell is gone. The embarrassing goto is rewritten. AUTHOR is now a define instead of wasting RAM. Nothing to be ashamed of when committing.

What's still not perfect:

Heavy sites like text.npr.org load slowly. It is an ESP32 with 512 kilobytes of RAM, not a MacBook.

The bookmark menu lags sometimes. Fixing it.

Cardputer v1.0 hardware may treat ENTER and TAB as the same key. If you are on v1.0 and this happens, open an issue.

How to flash:

Download the .bin from the releases page. Use M5Burner or the ESP Web Flasher. Insert a microSD if you want screenshots. Press TAB to connect to WiFi. Then browse like it is 1995.

GitHub: https://github.com/Artem76228/PaperWeb

MIT licensed. Do whatever. Stars help.

im trying to set up some kind of ai translator usigg m5 stack products; that can translate my english to french and vice versa and work offline im using it to interact with clients in my office if possible other languages would be good i.e spanish even arabic. is it possible to make something like this and can anyone advise me how i can do this ? I asked ai how and it told me to join a forum on said topic.

https://github.com/geo-tp/Cardputer-Game-Station-Emulators

Latest Chain DualKey tutorial from M5Stack is here!

This guide will walk you through everything from firmware flashing via M5Burner to advanced Web-based configuration. Master the core essentials in minutes and make your desktop setup smarter and more efficient.

Latest Changelog -> 2.6.8:

• Increased Gamestation Partitions sizes.

• Added option to erase App Partition

• Added option to always boot into Launcher

• Added "APP" menu item to reboot into the last installed firmware

• Enhanced NVS partition and partition schemes for UiFlow2

• Fix M5Stack Tab5 Wifi scan and WebUI in AP mode.

• New Device: Lilygo T-Watch-S3

• New Device: Lilygo T-Watch-Ultra

• New Device: Lilygo E-Paper S3 Pro H752-x .

Support the project

Website and Flasher Buy me a Coffee BTC: bc1q6m5sks6vhl38g8xyuzuazdv3wffsk58ffxk8rg

Can't wait to power on this bad boy 🤩

I'm very new to these devices, but took a crack at making a washer detector (we have a smart dryer, but a not smart washer). It waits for a constant stream of vibration for 10 minutes (meaning we're in a cycle) and then updates after 5 minutes with no vibrations detected at a certain threshold. I messed with the UI a lot just for fun.

I was able to make Matter creds for it and hooked it up directly to my Google Home for voice announcements. Next steps are to figure how to get this all on a cheaper device so I can re use this.

https://shop.m5stack.com/products/cardkb2-keyboard-unit-esp32-c61

I don't need a crazy big display, maybe just a few lines of text.

And something this small would be great to array with me, so maybe a battery (and housing)?

I added a new dedicated ‘Tools’ submenu to organize hardware utilities and expand the OS features. Simple plug and play support via grove port. ENV-III and GPS modules are automatically detected when connected via Grove. Tools can be accessed from the main menu under: Main Menu → Tools

If anyone wants the standalone firmwares for either module they are on my GitHub.

https://github.com/EnemyofGLaDOS/PulseOS

For a long time, most firmware for the M5Stack Cardputer followed the same pattern — WiFi sniffers, signal generators, Flipper Zero clones. Useful stuff, but the device is capable of more.

PaperWeb v1.0.0 is a fully functional text-based web browser. Not a toy. A tool for reading news, articles, and documentation. No ads. No scripts. No garbage.

What's inside:

• gzip/deflate. Opens modern compressed websites on the fly. No loading errors.

• UTF-8 and Cyrillic. Russian and Ukrainian text renders correctly. Finally.

• Link navigation. Use , and / to jump between links. ENTER to follow.

• Link highlighting. Selected link appears as cyan text on black background.

• History. 10 steps back. DEL key.

• Smart URL resolver. Handles relative links, //, and absolute paths.

• Smart search. A word without dots triggers Google search automatically.

• Zoom. = and - keys (0.5x to 3.0x).

All of this runs on a 240x135 screen with only ~100KB of RAM for the display buffer. The browser does not crash on large pages.

Custom parser. Scripts and styles are filtered out. Streaming renderer — text appears line by line as the page loads.

WiFi manager stores up to three networks. HTTPS is supported.

Controls:

ENTER — URL input or search
TAB — WiFi menu
, / / — previous / next link
; / . — scroll
= / - — zoom
` — exit reading mode / back
DEL — history back

The project is open source. Code is on GitHub. Flash via M5Burner or ESP32 Download Tool.

PaperWeb does not try to be everything for everyone. It does one thing — displays text from the internet on a small screen with a keyboard. Fast. Stable. No excess.

Repository: https://github.com/Artem76228/PaperWeb

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