ESP-IDF
- Software
- Microcontrollers and firmware tools
- Framework
ESP-IDF is the official development framework for Espressif SoCs, supported on Windows, Linux and macOS, used to build, flash and monitor projects.
Source on GitHub: github.com/espressif/esp-idf (opens in a new tab). Facts read at commit 1c42e51 (opens in a new tab).
Licenses
- Code
- Apache-2.0 (opens in a new tab)
Read by Robotheca from LICENSE (opens in a new tab) (Apache-2.0) at commit 1c42e51 (opens in a new tab), on 16 Oct 2026.
- Commercial use
- Yes
What it does
- Provides build, configuration and flashing tooling for Espressif SoCs through the idf.py command.
- Lets you set a target chip, open a text-based configuration menu, and compile the app, bootloader and partition table.
- Flashes the whole project or just the app, and can erase flash first.
- Offers serial monitoring with crash decoding via the esp-idf-monitor tool.
- Includes example projects in the examples directory to start from.
- Older ESP8266 and ESP8285 chips are supported by a separate RTOS SDK instead.
Written by Robotheca from the project's README (opens in a new tab) at commit 1c42e51.
Getting started
- Difficulty
- Intermediate
- How to start
- The project's README (opens in a new tab)
Maintenance
- Status
- Active: a commit in the last 90 days
- Newest commit
- 16 Oct 2026 on master
- Latest release
- ESP-IDF Release v6.1 (27 Aug 2026)
Checked on GitHub on 16 Oct 2026.
Links
Robots on Robotheca that use it
No robot on Robotheca is linked to it yet. Links come from a robot's robot.yaml, from its dependency files read as text, or from Robotheca's editors.
Robotheca lists software as a reference: nothing is hosted or run here, and every fact links to where it was read.