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LILYGO T3 S3

ESP32-S3 LoRa development board with 0.96" OLED display, multiple LoRa module options (SX1262/SX1276/SX1280/LR1121), WiFi, BLE, and 18650 battery support for Meshtastic and IoT applications.

Starting from

$13.61

Specifications

ArchitectureXtensa LX7
CPU Cores2
Clock Speed240MHz
PSRAM2MB
Flash4MB
GPIO Level3.3V
BluetoothBLE 5.0
AntennaU.FL/IPEX
Storagenone

Certifications

Components

Xtensa LX7 dual-core at 240MHz with 4MB flash, 2MB PSRAM, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, and BLE 5.0.

Long-range LoRa transceiver covering 150–960 MHz. Also available with SX1276, SX1280, or LR1121.

I2C monochrome OLED display driver for 128×64 pixel display.

Bus Interfaces

SPI
CLK: GPIO12MISO: GPIO13MOSI: GPIO11
I2C
SCL: GPIO17SDA: GPIO18
UART
RX: GPIO44TX: GPIO43

GPIO Map

GPIO18
I2C SDA (OLED)
digital-inputdigital-output
I2C
GPIO17
I2C SCL (OLED)
digital-inputdigital-output
I2C

Overview

The LILYGO T3 S3 is an affordable ESP32-S3 LoRa development board offering the ESP32-S3's processing power with multiple LoRa module choices. Available with SX1262 (433/868/915 MHz), SX1276, SX1280 (2.4 GHz), or LR1121 for multi-band operation, it covers virtually all LoRa deployment scenarios at a competitive price point.

The onboard 0.96-inch OLED display (SSD1306, 128×64, I2C) provides basic status display for Meshtastic nodes, showing signal strength, message count, and position data without requiring an external display. The 18650 battery support enables portable off-grid operation for field deployments.

With 4MB flash and 2MB PSRAM on the ESP32-S3FH4R2, the T3 S3 is slightly more constrained than PSRAM-heavy variants, but fully capable of running Meshtastic firmware, custom LoRa sensor nodes, and Arduino LoRa applications. The combination of WiFi, BLE, and LoRa in one affordable package makes it popular for gateway-less mesh networking experiments.

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