Introducing the credit card sized Cardputer!!
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In this video, I demo the ESP32-S3 Cardputer from M5Stack which is a hackable little keyboard device with Wifi, Bluetooth, Speaker, Microphone and more.
This is an interesting niche device for hobbyists who are interested in picking up a more complete development platform to tinker with.
Looks like this is back in stock you can find it called the M5Stack Cardputer. Unrelated but If you like small self-contained and cheap electronics like this, you may like my video on building one of the same microcontrollers which powers this into a Super Nintendo controller to store and play games. I've linked it in the bottom left of this video if you want to check it out!
I'd love to see a more comprehensive video of what this can do
How is all THAT only $30? The answer has gotta be slave labor, I don't see any other way.
Sorry what do you mean by bio? Your channel's about tab? This isn't Instagram
You could use it for a control unit for anything, even a dirty bomb.
@@gownerjones1450Obviously, you understood, so why the saltiness ?
This is exactly what people in the 70's thought technology would be in the 2000
And what a future we missed out on
@@dylanlastname6784 clearly not, this type of thing was made in 2000
@@dylanlastname6784hard disagree there tons of gadgets like this in 2000s.
@@dylanlastname6784We have this tech on our wrists now lol
@@murphy7801I almost wish I was born in the 80s so I could witness the new age of technology first hand. So much history in those few decades.
Now let's do an computer sized credit card
Massively underrated comment 🤣
LMAOO underrated af
Desktop-sized or laptop-/notebook-sized credit card?
@@duomaxwell6523both
Both
I was really impressed that they managed to pack so much in such a tiny package, but then i remembered i have a smartphone which has way more in a similar size
yeah but this is only $30
A cellphone of a similar (credit card) size ? Oh, I see, you have a flipphone ! Good for you ! 😂😂😂
Not really
@@daltonx6177 most of the space in a modern phone is battery and camera lens. The actually computer part is pretty small.
And free 24/7 monitoring and sale of all your activity!
This is some si fi 80s movie tech
Meanwhile you wrote this message on a cell phone problem probably which has more technology packed into the same size device😂
@@VineyardGHS it's about looking like 80s sci fi... Not that it actually is advanced or something
It reminds me of those watch calculators of the 80's. I had one my dad gave me as a kid in 2002
Some people use Lego bricks to build support structures for hobby electronics projects. Which is probably the reason for the Lego connector on this.
thats how google was made
rapid prorotyping for smaller models. Lego breaks with car-brake-weights (of 2 car wheels) on levers longer than 2 meters, but are fine at 1,5 meter long levers.
@@robproductions2599with legos?
@@LexDevilyes
@@LexDevilTechnically, Google used Lego bricks to shell their original server in. That's also why Google uses the colors that they do because the bricks were the same colors.
I need this. I don’t know what for but I need it
Same
Same
Credit card doom ofc
Same lol i use the esp32 a Lot! This thing Is just everything serio for a nice project
Same 😂
It can run a small motor with more complex functions like a time switch or temp switch. Rpm sensor or either patterns or an uneven time delay. In other words, it can run the fans, lights, and co2 or 02 sensors in you’re grow room and you can make adjustments on the panel. Plug it into a usb drive and it can run them all with with the right programming, You’re welcome. It can also run a mean model train set..
I always used a mechanical timer-
@@meloney it’s just a simple example to let folks know what the possibilities could be.
Damn didn't think of a grow room! Lol
That is a good idea
It’s crazy that something like this would be the size of a normal pc today back in the 90s
I know exactly what this is for. College level lego projects. Like the automated lego bridge building machine that lays a bridge, crosses it, and picks it back up. This is just the brain for those projects.
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@@aboriginalunderground4958 🤠🤠🤠
@@aboriginalunderground4958 not the nerd emojis on a computer video you yourself also watched
Thats pretty awesome. Going to go down this rabbit hole about this lego stuff. Good to know what it does!
@FRANK45CASTLE you will be amazed at what humans can do with Legos. I'm perpetually jealous of all the Legos that exist, and I don't have. The only thing I've made was a 3-speed automatic transmission with forward, reverse, and neutral in an all lego RC with McPherson strut suspension. It's a lot of fun and equally a lot of money...
Someone will pair this with a Raspberry Pi and post a KZhead video on how to fly to Mars using the two and some bubblegum.
MacGyver
How? Like, I know it's going to happen, but... How?
LOL. No one is going into outer space anytime soon. Can’t get past the atmosphere as it is.
@@beastshawnee jeeeez. There’s always one. Give it a rest.
There's more than enough computing power to calculate the engine burns and course corrections to get to Mars. The problem is fuel 😂
This has been my #1 recommended short for weeks and weeks now. Hopefully it leaves me alone now that I've finally clicked on it. xD
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You have that too sometimes?
"..for some reason." It isn't hard to imagine the many uses it can have with lego products.
Dude I had a vision of like some nuclear reactor control room creation with that as soon as he said it
This thing has more oomph than the combined power of both the 386, 486, and Pentium 1 I had back in the '90s, which cost me thousands of dollars. The progression of technology is amazing...
The entire 1960's-70's space program could have been powered by this thing.
my middle school principal, and neighbor, tried tutoring me in calculus with a huge slide rule that hung down from the chalkboard. That was the 80s in Kentucky and resources were even tighter than they are now. Looking back I guess he was a pretty sharp guy - despite the Grecian formula buzz cut, short sleeve polyester button downs, and horned rim glasses lol. The man retired before our school got its first computer yet he taught AP calculus and trig for decades. Seems taxing lol. It’s crazy how things have changed in such a relatively short period of time.
@@flatsixx My dad had a slide rule that he taught me to use back in the day. It's funny speaking of outdated technology, I took my first typing class in 1991 in middle school. The teacher taught by playing recorded messages on a old reel to reel tape player of her saying things letter by letter such as: a, a, capital C, capital C, capital C, AG AG AG AG, verbally.The tape would read the letter and we would type it etc. I am a middle school teacher currently. There's no way my kids could handle something like that. Technology has improved so many things in our lives, and I am optimistic about our society's future...
@flatsixx My dad had a slide rule that he taught me to use back in the day. It's funny speaking of outdated technology, I took my first typing class in 1991 in middle school. The teacher taught by playing recorded messages on a old reel to reel tape player of her saying things letter by letter such as: a, a, capital C, capital C, capital C, AG AG AG AG, verbally.The tape would read the letter and we would type it etc. I am a middle school teacher currently. There's no way my kids could handle something like that. Technology has improved so many things in our lives, and I am optimistic about our society's future...
First I had was an MS-DOS Toshiba laptop with the orange screen. Built-in modem, but came with a telephone handset adapter. I had to use Procomm Plus on it to dial in to Nortel PBXes at the time. The only game on it was Gorillas throwing exploding bananas.
"This is a credit card sized computer!" The third dimension: Am I a joke to you?
It always snnoyed me when people claimed ”credit card sized”
@@bloodaid*laughs in tesseract
It has 3 dimensions, of which the thickness of the material simply doesn't fit. 2/3 not enough for you? And this comes from people who live in a country where so many people believe in a flat earth :D
credit card sized, not credit card thickness, and is a thick baby
@@pentiumvsamd i’d say: credit card format, not credit card size. I imagine size being all three dimensions, while format is the general footprint.
"I'm not sure who this is for" Doom players:🔥 😎 🔥
Absolutely...!!! Might drive 007 too...???
We use M5 product at my school to build prototypes of stuff and test out UX solution. they got a shit ton devices and sensors to use. Its a shame the community is so small.
It's an ESP32, so you're not necessarily starting from scratch. There's a healthy community for ESP32 software even if that software might require some adaptation to match this exact device.
Was going to say the same thing until I saw this. You’re spot on!
I think the point is, how to write an app and add it to the app launcher. The operating system is key. Is it based on RTOS for example and how does the main loop function.
It's an ESP, so expect grievous errata straight out of the box.
@@arabiccola You can run your own OS like NuttX and Zephyr. However you can also program to bare metal using the ESP-IDF or even Arduino if you want a basic main loop type program
I use one of these with a USB to serial adapter as a network architect. It’s always in my pocket in case I need to access a switch or router in an emergency fashion, and don’t have my laptop and accessories. It’s saved my bacon more than once.
I was going to ask if it can work as a terminal for serial devices. Very nice.
Gotta get on the HuB quick sometimes
You do the old Cisco 6500 serial Port lines with this?
This is exactly what I’m going to use it for although radius auth may prove challenging, but basic config elements for out of box devices I’m all in. It’s serial so literally almost any network device console
@@red_ford23 hasn’t failed me yet.
Thats one thick credit card.
I wish there was a phone designed with this honest aesthetic.
Sounds like you need a clear back phone
Yu want a cellphone without any bloatware & totally controlable all functions
Anyone who was into microcomputers 40 years ago will be as blown away by this as I am. Its just crazy whats around now and how fast, cheap and easy development is now
Just as we're discussing under another comment. It's simply wild, even if you tracked video game console progression.
Yeah growing up before U.I interfaces in PCs gives us a very interesting perspective. I wonder how future generations will view us like the ppl.when electricity was spreading. How we lived through beginning of computing/internet etc
@captaintoyota3171 Yeah, great perspective. After responding to this, I was in a phone game and a player mentioned having a T-1000. I exclaimed that it was the 2nd time I'd heard that in a day. We started to talk about BBS, and the "cookbook" was even mentioned. I relayed for some reason I was watching VHS '85 and had just tried to explain to my little one about them landing on the moon the other night and was met with indifference and back to playing Roblox or watching FNAF lore or whatever. Az said I guess there's some nostalgia going around which completely fit the recent events. We got into feeling old, saying the kids didn't get it before we surrendered. The top players are all younger. The way my kid games and understands things is more profound than my skills were trying to jump Mario over a pit. I had more attention and plan and think things through which I would appreciate some patience. Regardless, I see a super fast rate of processing, problem solving, and acting over reacting, which leads me to the same thoughts. In 30 years, what will be thought about the old iPads and phones/mini-computers that became ancient and the Playstation 9 really does come out? Anyone curious search for the Playstation 9 commercial. It's what we were promised, but maybe next generation. Hope I'm around to play it. Okay, on to reminisce about ninja turtles somewhere and to talk on how kids will be doing the same about FNAF in 30+.
Dude imagine if they made these slightly bigger, they had a full on touch screen, you could make phone calls, browse the Internet and they had camera built into them!!! That would be insane
The only downside with this, we need really good bifocals to use it 😂
Someone must be working on running doom on it 😂
Of course!
I guarantee it already does with a little tweaking. It's the same processor family as a number of Gameboy clones as well, so you may be able to get the Gameboy+color+advanced libraries for not much more.
Came with Doom... it was on the preloaded apps
Of course it does. XD
Damn that was exactly what i thought. If it runs doom its worth the money just for the gag of showing it to someone.
the lego mounting on the back is such a fine touch. It would make the hardware a little more fun to tool around with. Just like legos. Legos are fun.
This is the single most homebrew device I've ever seen and I know a bunch of people that would love it.
My hat off to whoever designed and built this device
It was actually me
Thank you Tickles for the work you've done.... now what does this thing do?
M5stack
@@chrislive1586main thing is deauthenticating wifi networks
"It also has LEGO compatible mounting holes..." Sir, say no more 💸
Usb-c port was the cherry on top
We all heard it quote simp.
@@SamplingPercussionYou mfers really being using words without knowing the meaning huh 😂
Love the way you said "computer" at the start.
This is for me, 20 years ago, when I was 8 years old and dreaming about a product like this
With WiFi and IR it might be useful for smart home shenanigans
it can do lots
Only one important question: CAN. IT. RUN. DOOM?
you could probably run doom on an ESP32-s3
If the flipper 0 can, this can.
Yes. A. Cardputer. Can. Run. Doom.
Looking for this
This is so dope, just for a show but if you had this in the 80's or 90's will be a mind blown
I remember a time when a screen like that would have me really excited about the future. The future is now
Reminds me of a '90s Casio Pocket Computer.
I had one in 1983. But mobile phones obliterate that in every respect these days.
I was just thinking about that 😂
@@angrytedtalks that's what makes this so weird. He said "retails" like it's actually available to buy right now...? For what? For who? Is this for people with flip phones? Do flip phones still exist?
Too bad the keys are 1/10th the size of my pinkies...
@@brookelord3448Flip phones and candybar phones still exist; they're cheap, functional, & also great to leave in a glovebox/handbag for emergencies and when large amounts of bleeding make using touchscreens impossible.
Oh wow, I need this. It has some serious potential.
This is for high school students and more than any other demographic. The level of documentation and ease of access is great for children, and having some packages features gives them a place to start hacking away. College students and adult hobbyists will only get something like this as a curiosity and any serious users would see it's structure as mostly a limitation.
The idea of a credit-card sized computer with built-in keyboard and screen (let alone a speaker, network connectivity, etc) was BEYOND sci-fi only a few short years ago, and that's without even taking the dirt-cheap price point into account. Incredible.
It still is. That thing is way bigger than a credit card and he ends the video with "and it's only $30" as if that's a good reason to buy something you have no use for.
Really? I feel like Blackberry phones aren't too much bigger and are likely far more capable. This doesn't seem that impressive to me and at 30 bucks, I doubt I would be blown away by any if the features.
To me the $30 price screams some slave child labor built this device. And you can buy it for a cheap price. 😢
I think you mean a few short decades ago? Smartphones have been out for a while now.
@@citypavement PLENTY of people have many uses for this, you dont though so you assume noone does
That's a good price for how feature-packed that is, overall product size, and the shear novelty. Thanks for finding this thing!
What's the price?
@@quickmake3d22$30 from what i heard
@@quickmake3d22 He says at the end that it retails for $30. You can find it by typing M5Stack Cardputer into Google.
@@quickmake3d22 Currently going for $30 (plus shipping I presume)
@@quickmake3d22he said in the video
If this can be used as a Bluetooth keyboard I can definitely get a lot of usage out of it!
I'm pretty sure those are often used to program robotic Lego figures, so that might be why theres mounts for Legos. I see a lot of KZhead videos of people having literal car transmissions work with Lego pieces, its insane
I like the battery connector pads literally being a big + and -. Thats very readable.
It actually has two batteries
Literally?!?!!??!
Lego is used for some of the most random applications in the most precise way. IWC found that a lego axle was the perfect component for a machine that tests their watches for long-term use
That's genuinely amazing.
@@Sigma_Vehnke watches cost thousands. Solution: leggles
The main feature seems to be the physical keyboard. If the OS was extremely responsive for this specific purpose, and there's solar panel in the back to top off the battery, it could be a keyboard you pick up to augment your cell phone
I am absolutely loving the hhkb you have in the background
Holy shit. I with I could be bothered to do something cool with this. If I'd been given one of these when I was a kid in the 90s - it would have been my whole world.
Same, except 80s for me.
@@golf-n-guns if either of you were given this tech in either decade you'd probably be billionaires now
@@H31MU7oh phooey
Timex Sinclair... 😁
I’m a boiler/water treatment specialist. I have some pretty damn cool tools/equipment. This blows my stuff straight outta the water. I might need to get one.
do you have a controls background?
This is so beautiful. Buttons are awesome.
Its exactly what it was meant to be so you can program it to use it for what you want, plus it can be linked to others.
That's absolutely insane engineering particularly if they've already managed to mass produce for $30. The appreciative nerd in me wants one immediately 😮
I love this thing, just ordered an M5 MIDI module that includes a SAM9265 single-chip MIDI synthesizer, 64-voice MIDI synthesizer in a $12 module.
You mus get laid daily 🙄
@@aboriginalunderground4958 It has a pre-programmed sample bank built in that is a bit toy sounding but I'm looking at ways it can use custom sounds. The chip is powerful and could be a killer synth chip for mod/s3m/it playback with effects, possibly reprogrammable (firmware is stored with samples in 8mb).
wtf do these do?? Lol
The Lego compatible mounting holes on the back makes sense, you could build some sort of custom stand or case for the thing. Or if you're a huge Lego nerd simply incorporate that device into one of your builds in an interesting way, I'm not a huge Tech guy but I can see the advantages to that.
Wow that thing is packed. I already built my own IR remote with an ESP8266 so... this would be a great pre-made version to gift.
that display is actually stunning for the size and presumed use cases for this device!
100x the computer power than NASA had to land on the moon with.
Made the film "landed on the moon".
@@a-a-rondavis9438definitely didn't have the computing power to do that either...
fact
They could've done it without any computers.
If you believe they landed on the moon then I have a covid vaccine to sell you
Bout to become a cyberpunk net runner with that
Good enough to be a prop in a movie where the antagonist can hack into any device with a click of a button.
I really want this. I always loved micro sized computers. No idea what I would even use this for lol. But I must hoard!
I LOVE these types of minimalist technology. Things like the pocket operators from teenage engineering and stuff like the flipper make me kind of feel nostalgic for the earlier days of computing. Back when people were LITERALLY just slapping components onto a naked board to see what they could make work. Lol.
If only there was some diy modular smartphone like this thing, one that could call and stuff
Get the playdate
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The Lego Mount and magnets are for m5 stack components.
Lego actually seems like a really smart move here. All their technical stuff like pistons, motors, etc. make this an extremely powerful learning tool for people that started with Lego as a learning tool. The software support thing isn't such a huge deal. It can run in Arduino, which has numerous libraries and community help, it's just a dressed up ESP32. You could easily use the base instructions, or a template sketch to make this a super functional device.
Likely made for the Lego STEM robotics communities all around the world. Use it to run programs for movement, and actions. And this little thing probably plugs into an actuator to act as a hub for the motors or sensors.
Absolutely GENUIS!!!
That is absolutely epic, but when you said the price, my jaw literally dropped to the floor.
Literally huh?
@@DreamsOfGaruda yeah it’s pretty much busted, can’t get the lower jaw back on the hinges. I think it’s a permanent goner.
@@blazed-space dayum, hope you get better soon x
Try making you jaw Lego compatible, that’s the future anyway
Respect for the creator of this masterpiece 😊
So no one is gonna talk about how crazy and smooth he threw that plastic piece off at the start? 😂💀
This looks like something you'd find in the 90s or early 2000s
Price is right for $30!
Price is right for the features.
Should have led with that....
Hard to believe that a computer with similar capabilities to that in 1960 occupied 2 entire floors of space.
It’s not really fair to do a 1:1 comparison but it’s probably safe to say that no device in the world had anything near the computational power of this device until at least the 80s!
@@abetoday Power =/= Bandwidth.. People say this was more powerful than the entire of Mission control.. but you would be hard pressed to connect all those instruments to one.
This would be incredible for powered Lego Technic or Mindstorm style projects. Wow!
Being the same size as something is different from having the same footprint as something. I'll be impressed when we have computers that are actually the actual size of a credit card.
This could probably run Prince of Persia
It does run Doom...
Man, the ESP32 platform is amazing.
Design wise it reminds me of the OP-1 but if it was a tiny computer instead, really cool!
This is so cyberpunk n i love it
There’s some cool products using these processors in Japan on booth and other local stores.
basically an arduino with a screen. neat!
This could be a neat note taking (audio or text) device
The $30 price tag just proves that every other niche tech thing have no reason to cost $200+
If you think about it legos are a precision engineered plastic moulding company not just a toy. A lot of home engineers and model enthusiasts use lego as a vessel for their projects
“What’s a smart phone? I’ve never heard of that in my life” 🤣😂
price...
@@MrFinChart you can buy cheap used Android smartphones for about the same price
It has Lego compatible mounting holes so you can use Legos to make robots as a kid I had this thing from Lego called a NXT intelligence brick and it was probably 8 times larger than that credit card computer. You could buy servo motors color and light sensors IR sensors all sorts of stuff that you could plug into the intelligence brick.
I'm glad to have found out about, and watched, this video on Sunday, April 7, 2024.
These small computers can be serious security violations if you have them in the wrong places. I was a civilian welder helper at a navy shipyard (basically nothing in the eyes of government) and the amount of emphasis they put on ‘Bring a storage device of any kind be it cd, flash drive, SD card, in this place could land you in jail’. Bring this in and you’d have some serious questions to answer to people who are not going to be nice to you.
good to know i guess but most people will be using this for fun
right, i'll keep that in mind next time i'm in my cia high security meeting.
The brain is a storage device
@@brunorojas3992 the security violation is mostly that it’s a storage device, but it would be even more questionable because of the extra capabilities. I’m not even saying it’s likely for someone to bring this exact device in, I just mostly mean devices like it. Idk if you’re aware but the U.S. government runs like windows 11 still so they’re highly sensitive to everything that can interact with their computers because they’re just wide open.
@@brunorojas3992damn you’re right
I would have KILLED for this in high school. Unfortunately that was in 2003.
Some did in fact kill for this
You're an amazing speaker! ❤
Thank you!
You could totally make a real pip boy out of this thing. That's what I would use it for. 😂 I could see this being a very useful tool for language learners. I learned to speak Korean, but sometimes I forget a word while I'm speaking, or encounter a new word, and it would be really useful to have a dictionary strapped to my arm
Still more powerful than a chromebook
You must have very thick credit cards over there
Seems like it would be a useful pen tool, especially because of the ir, WiFi, and magnets. To the people talking about smartphones, most of them can't do what this can.
That was my first thought, too: this would become an EDC item for in-person pen testers.
such a cool item to have
People are using these for really intricate automated LEGO builds btw, that’s why it’s compatible lolol. You can use it to interact with a ton of PowerUp Hubs and Light Kits at the same time.
That is the coolest thing ive seen in awhile.
Why?
If i understand correctly m5 stack are products to stimulate learning, they have a smart watch, a pupy and a few more projects that you can build and program, not necessarily and end product for some"who" but a product for any enthusiastic learner
Imagine this being a “small” computer. We are essentially reaching the point where we can easily make it smaller or more “compact” however we’ve reached the point where we need external help to use these devices, once our fingers became “too large” to use this style of tech, the possibilities have slowly disappeared.
with M5 modules you can create very small implementations combining them with that 4wire connector. I guess this is just a nice addition to that line up. One could argue they already have a community, big? Dunno.
If u are like a rat or mouse this is a really great machine to have. If course you'll never look forward to moving to a new hole, but hey man I'm giving these mice props. They really made their own comp including starting their own business and everything, despite being mice. Very inspiring.
It’s probably more powerful than the computer that got us to the moon. Incredible
The AGC gets a bad rap. It was quite powerful, it DID have more power than modern calculators, and it performed flawlessly. TNMoC has a cool video on here explaining how it worked, it's a good watch.
This could be really good for a meshtastic device