Buying guide

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pre-built options available

Not interested in building your own OpenShock hub? Head over to the Hardware vendors.

These are the recommendations of the OpenShock maintainers. This list is not exhaustive. For a much more wiki-style information base, head to the Hardware section.

Board

Existing hardware

If you already own a PiShock or another ESP32, please check the Boards compatibility list.

ESP32-S3

We recommend the ESP32-S3 chip, specifically the N16R8 variant for its 16 MiB of flash. The Wemos Lolin S3 board satisfies all these criteria.

433 MHz Transmitter

See the Transmitter page for a quick one-stop shop.

Shockers

See the Shockers page for (yet another) one-stop shop.

Assembly

Next, head over to Assembly.