Published May 7, 2026, 11:00 AM EDT I’m Adam Conway, an Irish technology fanatic with a BSc in Computer Science and I'm XDA’s Lead Technical Editor. My Bachelor’s thesis was conducted on the viability of benchmarking the non-functional elements of Android apps and smartphones such as performance, and I’ve been working in the tech industry in some way or another since 2017. In my spare time, you’ll probably find me playing Counter-Strike or VALORANT, and you can reach out to me at  adam@xda-developers.com , on Twitter as @AdamConwayIE , on Instagram as adamc.99 , or u/AdamConwayIE on Reddit. Sign in to your XDA account AI on the ESP32 often looks very different to the AI that we often talk about in our home labs or on our computers. Typically, it involves TinyML, squeezing a wake-word model into a few hundred kilobytes of flash, or using the ESP32 as a conduit merely collecting input and then outputting the responses.…