SMRTR ProgrammingMar 24, 2026Hacker News

Running Iroh on an ESP32

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This experiment demonstrates running iroh, a networking library, on an ESP32 embedded device with just 4MB flash and 512KB RAM. The author overcomes significant challenges including missing symbols, binary size constraints, memory limitations, and crypto provider incompatibilities to create a working iroh endpoint on cheap embedded hardware.

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