@river Thanks I didn't even thought about IC pin headers, good idea, will try them for sure.
You're welcome for the board, looks like IoT world is still small ;-)
Refer to this thread for details on how Pycom builds the libraries:
https://forum.pycom.io/topic/2835/is-it-possible-to-recompile-pycom-s-esp-idf-with-different-settings