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ESP32 TEC Thermal Chamber

Hold a precise temperature with closed-loop Peltier control.

Track
POWER
Level
—
Prerequisites
1
Status
Coming soon

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This board is on the bench. Leave your email and you'll be first in when it ships, and your interest helps decide what we build next.

What you'll build

Hold something at a precise temperature, hotter or colder than ambient, with a thermoelectric (Peltier) element under closed-loop PID control. You'll drive the TEC bidirectionally with an H-bridge and log the whole thing from an ESP32: a small programmable thermal chamber for your bench.

It sits on the POWER track: power delivery, including batteries, charging, protection, and the clean rails everything else depends on.

The build pipeline

No steps skipped, no black boxes. Each stage is gated on real proof of work: a clean ERC, valid gerbers, a passing bring-up. You finish having actually done the engineering, not just watched it.

  1. 01REQUIREMENTS
  2. 02BOM SOURCING
  3. 03SCHEMATIC
  4. 04LAYOUT
  5. 05DRC + GERBER
  6. 06ORDERING
  7. 07ASSEMBLY
  8. 08BRING-UP
  9. 09REVISION

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Questions

When does this course open?
It's in active production. Join the waitlist and we'll email you the moment it goes live, and the demand signal helps us decide what to build next.
Is it beginner-friendly?
Every stage is explained from first principles. If you can read a schematic, you can follow along.
What will I need to build it?
The course overview will preview for free; the full course is a one-time purchase (no subscription). Building the board for real also needs its bill of materials (listed in the course) and a small PCB order from a fab house. The course walks you through both.
What will I actually learn?
You'll learn power delivery, including batteries, charging, protection, and the clean rails everything else depends on, plus the full board workflow: schematic capture, layout, DRC, gerber export, ordering, assembly, and bring-up.

Part of the path from your first board to a brain-computer interface. See the full skill tree →