--- title: This awesome ESP32 project simulates an entire ecosystem... description: A hobbyist project called the ESP32 Micro Ecosystem Simulator runs a full food-chain simulation at 60FPS on an ESP32 microcontroller with a 1.9" TFT LCD... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/this-awesome-esp32-project-simulates-an-entire-ecosystem-on-your-hardware-at-60fps-paztyeoz8 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: This awesome ESP32 project simulates an entire ecosystem on your hardware at 60FPS | daily.dev og:description: A hobbyist project called the ESP32 Micro Ecosystem Simulator runs a full food-chain simulation at 60FPS on an ESP32 microcontroller with a 1.9" TFT LCD... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/this-awesome-esp32-project-simulates-an-entire-ecosystem-on-your-hardware-at-60fps-paztyeoz8 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/pAZtyEOZ8.png og:image:alt: This awesome ESP32 project simulates an entire ecosystem on your hardware at 60FPS og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # This awesome ESP32 project simulates an entire ecosystem on your hardware at 60FPS **[XDA Developers](https://daily.dev/sources/xda-developers)** · 2 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A hobbyist project called the ESP32 Micro Ecosystem Simulator runs a full food-chain simulation at 60FPS on an ESP32 microcontroller with a 1.9" TFT LCD display. The simulation features seven entity types — plants, herbivores, carnivores, apex predators, spores, corpses, and decomposers — with basic evolutionary mechanics like speed stat inheritance and mutation. Hardware requirements include a standard dual-core ESP32 and an IdeaSpark ST7789 TFT screen, and the full source code is available on GitHub. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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