# esp32c3-oled042

This skill guides firmware work on the ESP32-C3 0.42-inch OLED board, from display setup to I2C peripherals. Use it to troubleshoot board behavior or start a project.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 22
- Author: alexex1993
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/alexex1993/mcu-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/esp32/esp32c3-oled042/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-15
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/esp32c3-oled042

## What it does

The skill includes board and chip references, code recipes, and a clean-building project template in two variants. It covers PlatformIO and ESP-IDF setup, pin mapping, USB-C flashing, and the USB Serial/JTAG console.

The SSD1306 panel shows 72 × 40 pixels, uses I2C address `0x3C`, and needs a column offset of 28. Its bus runs on GPIO5 and GPIO6; the board has one I2C controller, shared with the display. Add another I2C device to that bus rather than creating a second one. GPIO8 controls the blue LED, while GPIO9 is the BOOT button. The template uses PlatformIO, `platform-espressif32` 7.0.1, and ESP-IDF 6.0.1.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add alexex1993/mcu-skills --skill esp32c3-oled042 -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/esp32c3-oled042/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/esp32c3-oled042/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add alexex1993/mcu-skills --skill esp32c3-oled042 -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/esp32c3-oled042/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add alexex1993/mcu-skills --skill esp32c3-oled042 -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/esp32c3-oled042/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install alexex1993/mcu-skills esp32c3-oled042
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/esp32c3-oled042/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add alexex1993/mcu-skills --skill esp32c3-oled042 -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/alexex1993/mcu-skills --path skills/esp32/esp32c3-oled042
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/esp32c3-oled042/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add alexex1993/mcu-skills --skill esp32c3-oled042 -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/alexex1993/mcu-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/esp32/esp32c3-oled042/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- set up a PlatformIO project for the ESP32-C3 board
- get a stable image on the 72 × 40 OLED
- attach a second device to the shared I2C bus
- diagnose a silent USB console
- check the pin mapping and BOOT button behavior

## Example prompts
- Set up a PlatformIO project for my ESP32-C3 board with the 0.42-inch OLED.
- Fix the SSD1306 setup: the image is shifted and the display shows noise.
- Explain how to attach another I2C device to the display bus.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: esp32c3-oled042
description: Firmware development for the ESP32-C3 0.42" OLED board (ESP32-C3FH4, QFN32) — the ABRobot / 01Space "ESP32-C3-0.42LCD" mini board and its clones, sold as "ESP32-C3 SuperMini with OLED" and "ESP32 C3 OLED development board". Covers its 72x40 SSD1306 OLED on I2C, the single I2C bus, blue LED on GPIO8, BOOT button on GPIO9, USB Serial/JTAG console, ADC1, Wi-Fi/BLE, and the ESP-IDF + PlatformIO setup around them. Use when working on this board or a bare ESP32-C3: project setup, platformio.ini and sdkconfig, pin mapping and strapping pins, getting the 0.42-inch display to show something other than snow, U8g2 offsets, adding a second I2C device, flashing over USB-C, or debugging why something on the board does not work.
---

# ESP32-C3 0.42" OLED (ESP32-C3FH4)

A 25 × 20 mm ESP32-C3 board with a 0.42-inch OLED glued to it. Two things make
it worth a skill: **the panel is a 72 × 40 window inside a 128 × 64 controller
and does not start at column 0**, and **the C3 has exactly one I2C controller,
which the panel occupies**. Almost every failure on this board traces back to
one of those two facts, and neither is visible from the code.

There is no vendor datasheet for the board. The detail below is assembled from
the schematic, the Zephyr port, published bring-ups and a working project —
read the reference files rather than guessing.

- `reference/board-hardware.md` — the board reference: pin table, reset-time
  states, strapping analysis, free pins, peripheral availability, power tree,
  memory and flash layout, and the display's quirks in full (Part I), **plus**
  a development guide (Part II: §10 toolchain, §11 sdkconfig, §12 flashing,
  §13 peripheral cookbook, §14 symptom → cause → fix table, §15 sources).
- `reference/recipes.md` — copy-paste code: `platformio.ini`,
  `sdkconfig.defaults`, `board.h`, the OLED init sequence, the I2C bus, frame
  flushing, a second I2C device, bus scan, LED, BOOT button, ADC, UART, the
  U8g2 constructors, font regeneration.
- `reference/esp32c3-soc.md` — the ESP32-C3 datasheet digest, for chip-level
  questions: pin and IO MUX tables, analog functions, boot straps, memory,
  every peripheral's limits, electrical characteristics, current consumption.
- `reference/esp32-family.md` — the rest of the family, for "should this be a different
  ESP32?" questions: what does and does not port between chips, radio and USB capability
  per chip, the RMT generation table (WS2812 under Wi-Fi load), deep-sleep memory and
  ULP/LP-core availability, and a chip-selection table.
- `template/` — a **project that builds clean**, in two variants, plus a
  scaffold script. See `template/README.md`.

## Orientation

| | |
|---|---|
| SoC | ESP32-C3FH4, RISC-V RV32IMC @ 160 MHz, **QFN32, 22 GPIO, no FPU** |
| Memory | **4 MB** in-package flash (1 MB default app partition), 400 KB SRAM of which 16 KB is cache → ~320 KB linkable |
| Clocks | 40 MHz main crystal. **No 32.768 kHz crystal** — RTC slow clock is the internal RC, and that is the correct default |
```
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