Show HN: I'm Serving Esp32s31.fun

14 points by abu-matterize 17 days ago | 16 comments

esp32s31.fun is an experiment to see how far it can go, maybe a week without crash/reboot?

Nothing shows that this is actually running on bare metal. There's no description of how it was made, how is it connected, what technical limitations you had to work against or anything else that would make this interesting. The page itself is the only artifact.

QuantumNomad_ 17 days ago | |

10 minutes ago it was working. Now I get a Cloudflare bad gateway error. To me this is indicative of truth to the claim that the page might be running on a microcontroller or other weak machine :) But the page itself never mentioned if the HTML, CSS and JS is actually served from the ESP32-S31 or not. Or if the only traffic to the microcontroller was the “pokes” being sent by clicking the button on the page.

abu-matterize 17 days ago | | |

now on the cf edge. web assets are baked into firmware, was fine upto 100k pokes and started shedding, assets cached on edge now, api hits device now.

let me check if i can still get it to served from origin, how much we can push.

abu-matterize 17 days ago | | |

167k requests. booting back up now

abu-matterize 17 days ago | |

i'll be writing it up.

freakynit 17 days ago |

Page not rendering properly.. also, cloudflare page is coming many times when refreshing.

abu-matterize 17 days ago |

1000 pokes and counting

lwroo 17 days ago |

We poked it too much.

abu-matterize 17 days ago | |

let's be ready

freakynit 17 days ago | | |

What happened? Now absolutely nothing is loading.. a few minutes back at least a broken page was loading.. now it's just cloudflare page.

abu-matterize 17 days ago |

reboot #16 intentional

abu-matterize 17 days ago |

man this is fun

abu-matterize 17 days ago |

esp32s31.fun

abu-matterize 17 days ago |

back online

abu-matterize 17 days ago |

now up