This one is a complete ESP32 which fits inside a USB-A connector. The brains of the projects is the ESP32-D2WD which is a dual core chip with 2 Mb of memory, making it more than capable.

That interface doesn’t have to be special, and [Dakhnod] is here to show us that it can be done with an ESP32 microcontroller through its USB interface. The linked repository doesn’t tell us ...

Peter Neufeld decided to hack cheap ESP32-C3 USB-C boards by adding a custom wire antenna, and more than doubled the WiFi range.