You could have just answered "no".
You can open up the phone and modify the ESP32. I do that pretty often with IoT devices. It's not as easy as setting a URL, but totally possible if you are determined enough.
Or you mean "in theory yes, but actually no"? Maybe this thing has an ifixit score of 0 so that you'd better not bother?
> I would buy a dev board + build it yourself, you will get a much better experience then trying to reuse the existing thing.
Sounds like it. Dude you can be honest here.
Which is almost saying nobody on HN should buy this if they want to get anything more than 60 minutes out of this thing.
I am being honest with you. For me the ‘hacker spirit’ means cracking things open and learning how they work. So I totally encourage others to do it.
I'm going to politely weigh in here and say things Sean won't say about himself.
You're talking to someone who has spent the last ten years building open source WebRTC software that many, many, many people use and that he's never tried to commercialize. He works tirelessly to make the Pion community welcoming to everyone, from engineers with a ton of networking/video experience to brand new contributors. He wrote the guide that should be everyone's first read about WebRTC.[] All of it as a labor of love.
He's being honest.