Tensilica L106 RISC processor
Includes on-chip IEEE 802.11 b/g/n WiFi with TCP/IP software and BLE
'The RTOS and WiFi stack allow about 80% of the processing power to be available for user application programming'
32-bit
Up to
No in-built flash memory, but the ESP8285 does have
1x 10-bit SAR ADC
17 GPIO pins
Although it would be neat to have a one-chip solution that solves my connectivity implementation(s), the lack of thorough documentation/support (at least once you depart from Arduino IDE-compatible libraries) is concerning.
Further, I think I would better achieve the goals of creating a project that demonstrates my abilities/better prepares me for industry by selecting a microcontroller (and architecture) that is more commonly used in industry (at least, as more than just a WiFi module)—eg an ARM-architecture STM32.