Major German science prize for open-source firmware developer

The 1st prize of the German young scientists competition, in the category mathematics + computer science, of this year was awarded to Simon Neuenhausen for writing an open-source firmware for the wifi of the ESP32 SoC . It replaces the closed-source wifi driver. Project description (in German): https://www.jugend-forscht.de/virtuelle-ausstellung/detailseite/Open_Source_WLAN_auf_dem_ESP32.html…