Two Microcontrollers Talking, All It Needs is an LED

There are some projects that seem at first sight to be easy, but anyone who tries them finds a whole heap of unexpected problems and turns to the off-the-shelf device. PCB antennas for example, or data links using LEDs, whether IR or visible. The latter doesn’t faze [Luca Soltoggio] though, because he has two ESP32s talking to each other using visible light .