What's the chip in the m2 bay on the Zimacube?

[JourneymanGeek]

I noticed there’s a small chipset with a boot and reset button on the zimacube - its got a USB C port. What’s the purpose of the chip?

[Jerry]

This is an esp32 microchip. The purpose is to control the front LED lights.

[scyto]

thats all it does, hilarious - also cheap and effective I guess… hmm its reprogrammable… wonder what we could make it do…

[sanderdw]

7th Bay Glowing Yellow/Orange

You can also just install wled, it’s very simple with the web installer: 1 - Remove the bay 7th bay 2 - Connect a usb cable to your pc and the usb header on the bay 3 - Goto https://wled-install.github.io and select “ESP32-C3 (4MB Flash)” 4 - Configure wled after connecting it with your wifi (12 leds etc) PS i find it very strange security wise to have this ESP chip standard configured as ZimaCube AP with a standard password homecloud.