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Introduction
This tutorial walks you through turning an ESP32 DevKit into a tiny Wi‑Fi “light mixer.” By the end, you’ll serve a webpage with three sliders that change the Red, Green, and Blue channels of an RGB LED in real‑time. The project shows how easy it is to combine embedded PWM control with HTTP requests so that any phone or laptop becomes a wireless color picker.
Learning Objectives
Spin up a minimalist HTTP server on the ESP32 (using the built‑in WiFi.h and WebServer.h libraries or ESPAsyncWebServer).
Parse slider/GET parameters from a browser and map them to values (0‑255).
Generate Pulse‑Width‑Modulation (PWM) signals on three GPIO pins.
Wire and current‑limit a common‑cathode RGB LED.
Test and debug over Serial and the browser console.
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