AI-Powered ESP32 Development with PlatformIO

AI-assisted development is reaching every part of software engineering—including embedded development on microcontrollers such as the ESP32. In this introductory, hands-on workshop, participants will connect an AI coding harness to M5Stack ESP32 modules and build an AI-themed project from scratch.

You’ll progress from setup and a first upload to creating a personal voice-powered recorder and assistant.

By the end, you’ll have a working project, a physical module to take home, and the foundations to continue exploring AI-assisted IoT development yourself.

No previous Arduino, PlatformIO or ESP32 experience is required.

About the presenter

Jeremy Kelaher

Jeremy Kelaher is AI Enablement Architect at the Special Broadcasting Service, where they champion smarter, more resilient media workflows across digital and live production at scale, helping systems deliver much loved content every day.

A lifelong electronics hobbyist and an early coder who cut their teeth building an Eliza-style chatbot as a teen, Jeremy has been obsessed with practical AI ever since. For this talk, Jeremy brings a blend of hands-on tinkering and professional engineering rigor to Edge AI, especially real-time, privacy-preserving systems that interact directly with the world.