WT32-SC01 Plus desk companion: clock, weather and internet radio on an ESP32-S3 touchscreen

This project by SubCoderHUN turns the WT32-SC01 Plus, an ESP32-S3 module with a 480 x 320 capacitive touch screen, into a small desk companion. It shows the time and current weather from OpenWeatherMap, plays online radio streams through an optional I2S amplifier and speaker, and lets you set Wi-Fi, city, station and brightness (including a brightness schedule) on the touchscreen. Settings are saved to EEPROM so they survive a reboot, and an optional microSD card can keep a log.

The interface is built with LVGL and LovyanGFX, and the repo includes the SquareLine Studio project file, so you can redesign the screens visually and export new LVGL sources.

Hardware & cost: A WT32-SC01 Plus, a USB-C data cable, and optionally an I2S amplifier with a speaker and a microSD card. You'll need your own OpenWeatherMap API key. Apache-2.0 licensed.

Difficulty: Medium. Build and flash with PlatformIO in VS Code.

Agent install prompt (paste into Claude Code, Cursor or Codex): "Clone https://github.com/SubCoderHUN/WT32-SC01-PLUS, open it with PlatformIO, set my OpenWeatherMap API key in weather.cpp, check the serial port in platformio.ini, then build and upload to my WT32-SC01 Plus. Ask before flashing."

Source: SubCoderHUN/WT32-SC01-PLUS on GitHub, https://github.com/SubCoderHUN/WT32-SC01-PLUS (facts checked against the project README, Oct 2026).

Found via Joseph Zhou's AI Hardware list (https://josephzhou.me/ai/).