Probably just fine, most electronics shielding isn't meant to help the device they're in itself, but rather to help keep common consumer, police, etc. RF bandwidths free and comply with FCC standards.

Normally without the cage it work just fine, unless you are in the middle of a thunderstorm, that could disturb your signal whole bunch or be very near to a radio station.

What Facundo said

@@TuxraGamer how would a faraday cage help keep the emi inside of something? Isn't it the other way around? You cannot prevent the exit of EMI, but you can prevent the "ingress". That's how a faraday cage works. It allows everything to exit, but "nothing" to enter

@@HoloScope is it really though?

That's a Miniware MHP30 I think.

I kinda want one now?? But I think I want to build one

$94

​@@AquaTech225not so adorable now

lol@@poisonouspotato1

YES I WANT IT SO BADLY

Not telephoto, macro lens. Macro lenses allow you to get close. Telephoto are used for objects which are far away.

I love this sentence! thank you smm

Everyone knows electronics run on magic. Why else would they stop working if you let out the magic smoke?!

Or you could just buy the module version with 4mb flash Edit: Just checked ESP-12S (shown here) comes with 4MB

@@thunderb00m I liked the challenge. Bought 10 memory ic's for $3. The 07 has a remote sma pcb type antenna plug that I needed. Yes, true - the '12 came stock with 4M.

Been there, done that!

Think is an overstatement. It's merely a bunch of transistors going ON or OFF and calculating stuff that way

We did the thinking, and then we told the rocks what to do. We did teach the rocks how to do maths though. The sad thing is that I'm not sure people have spent a lot of time thinking about what they want from life and the universe now that they taught the rocks all these cool tricks.

@@superchromaby “rocks” you mean silicon, gold, etc?

​​@@BigTurtleManeI think so

He basically said it. He called it a "faraday cage", which is the same thing

What happens if it's removed

What happens if it's removed

It’s both

@@mattmurphy7030 Well actually no it isn't. It will stop received EM radiation, but that isn't going to be a problem for it. It's been FCC certified and the key thing you are trying to stop here are radiated emissions.

@@deang5622 wElL aCkShUaLlY,

And to keep the rf radiation from outside coming in!

@@rallokkcaz no, the chip will not have a problem handling a few v/m radiation from the outside

I was thinking the same thing. With the wifi antenna that close to all those components, I would think the shielding would be to keep the wifi signal as clean as possible by blocking the noise from the CPU and other components.

I would bet but I doubt you would need to upgrade it

@@co9681 It depends. Some space constrained projects could maybe benefit. I haven't run into it myself though but on some portable led projects I've come close.

@@Morberis portable led or LED

@@miniwarrior7 ... LED ...

Yeah it being 25vq32 (4mb), some ship with smaller yet; you should be able to just bump it up to a 25q128 (16mb). Why needed? Depends. It is easily a dedicated web server for something like a sensor or control or other, and you can burn a lot of space with images. Imagine it being a weather station or something of a kind. Though other solution is to host static resources externally on the wide Internet. You can also easily drive an SPI display with it, and then you probably want uncompressed images stored in flash, also very space hungry. It's cool to think outside the box, or inside a several megabytes larger box as it were. The flash chip operates in Quad SPI mode so it's very fast. The chip does support the fast 4-bit SD-card interface for bulk external storage, but not sure whether any specific board makes it available.

www.adafruit.com/minihotplate

Yup it’s for a little piece of metal to talk to other little pieces of metal in their secret language that only has 2 letters

Something like the Wemos D1 Mini can at least, which is 8266. Oh, and NodeMCU as well. Those are the only two I've played with however.

Yes? Why wouldn’t you be able to lol

@@mattmurphy7030 because you can't on most microprocessors. I assumed the same would be the case for these.

@@shaunclarke94 “most”? Yes you can lol. I dump code from vehicle ECUs that are explicitly designed not to be able to do that.

@@mattmurphy7030 what about your standard Microchip or Atmel MCU's? It was my understanding of they were protected you were out of luck, and since the flash is internal you can't exactly just read it externally.

The RAM is inside the main chip. It has no programmable storage capability at all, the complete flash is on the external SPI flash chip. The integrated bootloader transfers a 32kb blob from the SPI flash into RAM and runs it, presumably there's important wireless functionality in there, and the user application is loaded from SPI flash into RAM in small chunks as-needed, supported by a 32kb cache in RAM to improve performance.

There is. The regulations say your device should emit too much “garbage”. You can either stop your device from emitting said garbage (so you don’t need a shield), or add the shield to block it in

Abbreviated from company name Espressif. The company is Chinese, I think you're giving them a little too much credit.

No, it's to keep the impedance matched so you don't get reflections.

@@D4100N ah I see, I figured it would be the same reason as a desktop cpu but nvm. Thank you 😊

why?

@@tennicktenstyl those light bulbs that use esp8266's can be loaded with deauther firmware pretty easily. If someone could get in they could block devices from using internet