I Built My Own ESP32-S3 Board… And It Actually Works!

Published at : 23 Dec 2025

Thanks to https://www.PCBWay.com/?from=atomic for the fantastic PCBs and SMT assembly.

I finally got round to assembly our super simple ESP32-S3 Dev Board that we designed in this video: https://youtu.be/enlcWor7sPM

0:00 Does it work?
0:30 ESP32-S3 Schematic
1:27 Solder paste and stencil
2:41 Soldering up by hand
5:15 Soldering the ESP32-S3 module
7:09 Does it really work? Will it blink?

You can find the KiCad project here: https://github.com/atomic14/basic-esp32s3-dev-board

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