Interesting news from Hackster is that a Chinese startup is working on a replacement board for the uber popular UV-K6 Quansheng which will dodge expensive radio remoulding and fitting a Espressif ESP32 board inside the case.

Details from the site:

The housing, with its buttons, speaker, and microphone, is the only part of the UV-K6 to be reused: internally, the MeshWalkie is all-new electronics built around the Espressif ESP32-S3-WROOM-1 with two Tensilica Xtensa LX7 cores running at up to 240MHz, 8MB of flash memory, and both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) radios. To this, OpenEmbed has added a Seeed Studio Wio-SX1262 LoRa transceiver module, based on the Semtech SX1262 — giving it long-range transmission and reception capabilities plus compatibility with the community-driven Meshtastic mesh networking project. Finally, there’s a a Seeed L76K multi-constellation Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver.

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