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The smallest ESP32 board CopperPilot could design

A plain-English prompt produced an ESP32-PICO-MINI-02 board with USB-serial, LDO, and Qwiic, laid out cleanly in KiCad.

The smallest ESP32 board CopperPilot could design

The prompt was plain English: “Design the smallest ESP32 board that you can.” No datasheet pack, no BOM, no mechanical envelope.

CopperPilot came back with the ESP32-PICO-MINI-02: RF frontend, crystal, and flash already folded into the module, then USB-to-serial, boot/reset switches, an LDO, and a Qwiic connector around it. A few nudges later the schematic was clean enough to hand to a teammate, not just electrically correct.

That is the job. Live in KiCad. Get a board you would actually review.

Try it free at copperpilot.ai.

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