The ESP32 Gets a Web Browser
The ESP32 Gets A Web Browser No comments by: Jenny List July 29, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy At the Hackaday Europe conference in Italy earlier in the year, we were shown a rather interesting device. The work of [Alun Morris], it was an ESP32-powered Cheap Black Display board, and it was running a web browser. Lest you imagine that it was sporting the latest and greatest in browser technology, we must disappoint you.
- ▪The ESP32 Gets A Web Browser No comments by: Jenny List July 29, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy At the Hackaday Europe conference in Italy earlier in the year, we were shown a rather interesting device.
- ▪The work of [Alun Morris], it was an ESP32-powered Cheap Black Display board, and it was running a web browser.
- ▪Lest you imagine that it was sporting the latest and greatest in browser technology, we must disappoint you.
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| Original publisher | Hackaday |
| Canonical URL | https://hackaday.com/2026/07/29/the-esp32-gets-a-web-browser/ |
| Publication time | Wed, 29 Jul 2026 15:30:27 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-29T15:30:56.911Z |
| Last seen | 2026-07-29T15:30:56.911Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
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| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
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| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
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| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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The ESP32 Gets A Web Browser No comments by: Jenny List July 29, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy At the Hackaday Europe conference in Italy earlier in the year, we were shown a rather interesting device. The work of [Alun Morris], it was an ESP32-powered Cheap Black Display board, and it was running a web browser. Definitely an achievement. Lest you imagine that it was sporting the latest and greatest in browser technology, we must disappoint you. The browser in question is a very basic text mode device, but it did happily retrieve Hackaday, which should be the only test a browser should need to pass. Under the hood it’s running FreeRTOS, with separate HTML retrieval and tokenizing, and UI processes.
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