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I accidentally shorted my SPARKFUN ESP32 THING's (13907) 3v3 and ground pins

I wanted test an led and therefore I connected across 3v3 and ground pins of Sparkfun ESP32 Thing, expecting it to have a pull up / pull down resistor. But to my surprise i blew my led besides blowing up the power indicator led of ESP32. So, when i try to upload any code like blink to it, it is saying

Connecting...__...connecting....____...

And ultimately it's throwing a fatal error. But my ESP32 is being detected in COM port list of arduino IDE

Any help to fix this is highly appreciated Thanks in advance

Solution

  • You probably blew the 3.3V regulator or the diode before it. You can find them in the power and filtering section of the following schematic: https://learn.adafruit.com/assets/41630.

    Hope this helps.