Unexpected Maker has recently released the Series, a lineup of four new ESP32-S3 development boards: the EdgeS3, TinyS3, ...

Luckily his chosen platform, the ESP32, has some phenomenal power saving features. You just need to know how to use them. The custom board can read from six soil sensors.

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To achieve this he created Fade, a custom programming language/framework for controlling LED animations from the ESP32. Fade is written for addressable RGB LEDs like the Neopixel/WS2812.