New uConsole video showing the components and talking about a new expansion port PCB

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Hello dear forum members. I am Hayri and new here and received my uConsole today and made a first video:

Where I show the individual components, which I am sure everybody knows already but maybe not my channel viewers, and talk about my own version of a expansion port PCB, which along the known and available GPS, LoRa, RTC, USB hub, will include a ADXL345 accelerometer sensor, CAN BUS connectivity, since it will make a great OBDII diagnostics tool for your car or additional Instruments and an ESP32-S3 module with the GPIO’s exposed on the side. The ESP32-S3 can be used either via WiFi or Bluetooth or wireless with ESP NOW. If you have any questions please feel free to ask.

Thank you, Hayri

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I ODB would be slick. Excited to see how it comes together.

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Since OBDII requires its own connector anyway, you might just use an OBDII-to-USB cable or an OBDII bluetooth dongle. Why would you need a special expamsion?

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Good question. I have build several CAN BUS gauges from a “simple” Atmega328 chip with OLED display, a Atmega1284P version with a 1.3" IPS display to a 3.5" Touch screen version running on a ESP32 chip, to versions with multiple displays, namely my V-Gauge with 5 OLED displays or the 5 IPS color display version. You can of course use a Bluetooth dongle and have around a second delay in what is read/displayed or slightly better with a WiFi version dongle, or a wired dongle. The wired dongle will hang of the side of the uConsole, which is nothing bad really, but I would rather have it inside on the PCB. There are of course several options, but I like mine. I also have a OBDII plug that has a USB type A connector and my PCB will have a dedicated type C connector and you will be able to use any good USB cable in the length you need even one that for example has a 90 degree angled type C connector which will go out and to the back of the uConsole. Plus it’s not like the other options are free, you still have to pay for those. I could have easily write a firmware for the ESP32-S3 chip on the PCB and have wireless CAN BUS as well, I just prefer CAN BUS to be wired. Hope that this will answer your question. Thank you.