00:00Alright, so if you've ever stared at a pile of ESP32 dev boards and thought, man, I wish one of
00:05these just had a screen attached, this video is for you.
00:08I went digging for the best deals on smart HMI touch displays every ESP32 developer needs, and honestly, the options
00:15right now are kind of ridiculous, big capacitive panels, round displays, even one that runs 6 months on a battery.
00:21Let's get into them.
00:23First up, the ESP32s3 7-inch capacitive touch LCD 800x480, and it's a full dev board, not just a screen.
00:32Stensa LX7, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 5, plus Canon RS-485 baked in, which is huge if you're doing anything industrial
00:39or talking to sensors on a bus.
00:42LVGL support out of the box means you can build a real GUI without fighting the hardware.
00:47It's $51.24, it's sold over 4,500 times, and it's sitting at a perfect 5-star rating.
00:55For a 7-inch panel with that much I.O. on board, that price is honestly hard to argue with.
01:01Next, the Nexion 7-inch, and this one's a different philosophy.
01:05It's an intelligent HMI module, so the display does the heavy lifting itself and your MCU just sends it commands.
01:12You get your choice of resistive or capacitive, the NX8048P070-011C or RY model, and it ships with an enclosure,
01:20which saves you a 3D printing headache.
01:23It's $89.90, 4,356 sold, 4.8 stars.
01:29If you want a polished, drop-in panel and you don't want to write every pixel yourself, this is the
01:34one.
01:35Third, and this is the fun one, Waveshare's 1.85-inch round IPS display on an ESP32 S3.
01:43360 by 360, perfectly circular, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, and it plays nice with LVGL, HMI work, and Arduino.
01:51This is your smart knob, your thermostat, your little wearable dashboard that actually looks like a product instead of a
01:57prototype.
01:57Only $36.82, over 4,200 sold, 4.9 stars.
02:04Cheapest thing on this list and arguably the most charming.
02:08Number 4 is for the people who hate charging things, the RE-Terminal E1003.
02:1410.3-inches, touch ePaper, fully open-source, ESP32 S3 inside, and it's a smart home dashboard with multi-sensor
02:22support.
02:23ePaper plus aggressive sleep means roughly 6 months of battery life, which is genuinely absurd for a display this size.
02:30It's the priciest at $164.45, with 4,052 sold and a 5-star rating.
02:37If you're mounting something on a wall and you never want to touch it again, this is it.
02:42Last one, the crow panel advanced, 10.1-inches, 1024x600 IPS touch, and it's running the ESP32 P4.
02:51Wi-Fi 6, and it works with Arduino, LVGL, or MicroPython.
02:56The P4 chip plus that resolution makes this the most real product feeling board here,
03:01and it's advertised as an AI display for a reason, it's got the horsepower.
03:06$86.99, 3,841 sold, 5 stars.
03:11Honestly feels underpriced for the spec sheet.
03:15So that's the roundup.
03:17All 5 links are in the description below, some of these sell out fast, so check them sooner rather than
03:22later.
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03:29breakdowns.
03:30See you in the next one.
