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Capability brief · 00 / Overview

One mind.
Many machines.

ESP32 hardware engineering · breakout to brain-computer interface

Every project ends in a board you designed, fabricated, and brought up yourself, with the design files and a verifiable certificate to keep. Twenty-two builds carry you from a USB-C breakout to a brain-computer interface that reads a mind and commands a fleet.

System spec
Platform
ESP32-S3
Toolchain
KiCad 10
Program
Brain-to-Swarm
Structure
4 tracks / 3 levels
Access
Public → Premium
System map · the Brain-to-Swarm curriculum
SENSEPOWERCOMMSACTEEGREAD THE BRAINHUBCOMMAND THE SWARML1.01 · THE COREfree, public root board
22 boards / 4 tracks / 2 capstones
22
Boards
Sense, Act, Comms, and Power, wired as one skill tree of 33 dependencies.
8
Stages each
Requirements, BOM, schematic, ERC, layout, DRC, gerbers, bring-up in KiCad.
DRC = 0
The real gate
You advance only on a clean check and fab-ready gerbers. Not points, not streaks.
No subscription
Buy a project once and keep it. Level 1 starts free.
Start free at L1.01

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