ESP32-A2DP VS Mach3Controller

Whole thing is programmed using Arduino library in platformio and for a2dp sink im using pschatzmann library https://github.com/pschatzmann/ESP32-A2DP

The ESP8266 won’t work, since it doesn’t support Bluetooth. You’ll need an ESP32 and an I2S DAC. I built something similar based on this library: https://github.com/pschatzmann/ESP32-A2DP

I want to turn a USB computer keyboard into a musical instrument where i can press a key and a sound is played on my bluetooth speaker. I have played around with https://github.com/pschatzmann/ESP32-A2DP and managed to hardcode a little tune and play it on the speaker. Unfortunately that alone already uses 80% of the esp32 flash memory and I need some more space to read the keyboard input and do a little bit of sound design on top of that. I’m looking for suggestions on a controller (combination of controllers) would be best suited for the job, with the constraint that it should have low power consumption.

Check out arduino-audio-tools and other libraries it can make use of, such as ESP32-A2DP. It's tailored towards ESP32 devices, but also supports the RP2040 and others.

For all other i2s pinouts, I'm leaning on this GitHub-project: https://github.com/pschatzmann/ESP32-A2DP

You can use Bluetooth A2DP. This is the same standard used in Bluetooth headphones. Several implementations are available https://github.com/pschatzmann/ESP32-A2DP

A2DP library: https://github.com/pschatzmann/ESP32-A2DP

I recently discovered that the ESP32 could be used to receive audio via Bluetooth and since I'm using one as part of my build anyway (for controlling peripherals and LED outputs) I was thinking to just use the ESP32's onboard Bluetooth rather than a dedicated chip/module. After looking through some example code and the ESP32-A2DP library, I feel confident that this would work but is anyone able to see any caveats in doing this other than not being able to support aptx?

I got it to work by having a python script that waits for specific packets then translates them to keystrokes. Python is compatible with Windows, Mac and of course Linux. The Keyboard library is very interesting and by using Python we can easily make wifi keyboards, controllers, etc. If you have control over the computer and can install python on it, this is easy to do. Here is my github project that shows a real world example. Receive.py is what you should look over. You don't have to use UDP, TCP would be more reliable but if it's just moving slides well then.... Yeah that's up to you lol.