Another strange microcontroller. How to program the W806 controller in Arduino

This video is not made for kids.

I will be making a follow up to this video, so this video is no longer relevant. I found a better W806 Arduino package from a user called board707 and it has almost all the features fully implemented, although there are some compatibility issues because of the class names.

In this video we will take a look at another strange and bizarre microcontroller, the W806. Manufactured in china by a company called AllWinner, and can be found on AliExpress. This seems to be a powerful chipset that is set back by the support software, or lack there of. We will program this in Arduino, but the only support package that exists only supports 3 basic functions, and the project may be abandoned. There are no other options sadly, so we will have to work with the only thing we have.

Some versions of the W80x series controllers support wifi, but currently even china has no software to enable the ability to use it. Although ESP32 and ESP8266 series processors do this much better, with the ESP32 also supporting Bluetooth.

One part i forgot to add until now was the chips supported in this board. It only supports W806 and W805, sadly nothing else is supported at this time.

I really hope that one day a better support package will be created to fully take advantage of this controller’s hardware, but it may be many years before we see that.

The boards package is here: https://github.com/Hi-LinkDuino/w80x_arduino (Everything in this repository is in Chinese, but Google Chrome allows translation if it works correctly. Copy the second json link as the first one doesn’t work.)

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