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I bought an Adafrut Huzzah32 ESP32 for an IoT project. When the ESP32 arrived, I attempted to fit it into my existing breadboard, but I immediately noticed that no matter how hard I pushed, the pins wouldn't fit into the solderless breadboard.

I tried to find others with the same problem with no luck, so I went on amazon and purchased another breadboard (an Elegoo 830 tie-points Breadboard). It arrived today and I'm having the exact same problem. I don't want to use a soderable breadboard at this stage of the project as I'm just starting, but I don't know what else to do at this point.

I've Googled images of other peoples' setups and there pins are snug down in the board. What am I doing wrong? I've included photos below:

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As you can see, the power module on the end fits fine but the ESP32 won't go down into the board. At this point, I've tried two different boards (one of those small Arduino ones and this one) with no luck.

Any suggestions?

You can see that the pins aren't even close to being down in the board.

Brandon Avant
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I ended up taking Gerben's suggestion from the comments and ordering the stacking headers (adafruit.com/product/2830) and plugging the ESP32 into that. The reason it works is because the stacking headers (as Gerben mentioned) are thinner and fit down into the breadboard while the female ports on top are big enough for the male pins coming out of the ESP32.

Thanks everyone!

Brandon Avant
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I understand. These breadboards are pretty difficult to work with. Not only fitting an ESP-32 or similar board is difficult, these breadboards are not broad enough to expose all the GPIOs on both the sides.

I had solved this problem in this video. Do have a look. It might be helpful

https://youtu.be/CQlbE1x2i2g

Abhishek Dixit
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or you can simply fit two bread boards together and mount the esp on them

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(i had to twist the pins a little bit )

Hach Rbh
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