diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..10d84ff
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+[submodule "components/nanofmt/nanofmt"]
+	path = components/nanofmt/nanofmt
+	url = https://github.com/antsouchlos/nanofmt.git
diff --git a/components/nanofmt/CMakeLists.txt b/components/nanofmt/CMakeLists.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4310db1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/components/nanofmt/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+idf_component_register(SRCS "nanofmt/src/serialize.cpp"
+        INCLUDE_DIRS "nanofmt/include")
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/components/nanofmt/nanofmt b/components/nanofmt/nanofmt
new file mode 160000
index 0000000..9699dad
--- /dev/null
+++ b/components/nanofmt/nanofmt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 9699dadf5ed1396ab8fc3a994b86804d8e0d7a4a
diff --git a/main/src/main.cpp b/main/src/main.cpp
index 90b17a7..42fa37f 100644
--- a/main/src/main.cpp
+++ b/main/src/main.cpp
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@
 #include "esp_flash.h"
 #include "esp_system.h"
 
+#include "nanofmt/format.h"
+
 extern "C" void app_main(void)
 {
     printf("Hello world!\n");