{"id":10302,"date":"2023-10-01T08:56:13","date_gmt":"2023-10-01T12:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dronebotworkshop.com\/?p=10302"},"modified":"2023-10-01T08:56:13","modified_gmt":"2023-10-01T12:56:13","slug":"xiao-esp32s3-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dronebotworkshop.com\/xiao-esp32s3-sense\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeeduino XIAO ESP32S3 Sense Board – A Tiny ESP32 Camera"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\"Download<\/a> \"Parts<\/a> \"View<\/a> \"Download<\/a><\/p>\n

Today, we will look at the smallest ESP32 Camera board yet, the Seeeduino XIAO ESP32S3 Sense board.<\/span><\/p>\n

Introduction<\/span><\/h2>\n

Adding cameras to projects used to be the domain of microcomputer boards, like the Raspberry Pi. While you could buy cameras that attach to the Arduino, these were intended for taking still images and not streaming video.\u00a0 Microcontrollers were simply not powerful enough to handle the volume of data and the data rates required for streaming video.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/div>\n

That changed in 2016 when Espressif released the ESP32 chip, a successor to its popular ESP8266 module. This powerful 32-bit microcontroller had performance specifications that were light-years ahead of its 8-bit predecessors. And it also had the speed and memory that allowed it to process video.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A little over a year after the release of the ESP32, a company named <\/span>Ai Thinker<\/span><\/i> released the ESP32-CAM board.\u00a0 At only 9 US dollars, this little camera was perfect for hobby electronics and implementing inexpensive surveillance systems. It even had a MicroSD card holder and a white \u201cflash\u201d LED, despite its low price.\u00a0 It did not have a USB port, however, so an external FTDI adapter was required to program it (these days, it is often sold with a USB adapter board).<\/span><\/p>\n

Other ESP32-based camera boards from other manufacturers followed the ESP32-CAM.\u00a0 Espressif themselves came up with the ESP-EYE, a small ESP32-based camera board with an integrated microphone.<\/span><\/p>\n

Espressif added a sample sketch called \u201c<\/span>CameraWebServer<\/span><\/i>\u201d to the ESP32 samples; this little gem allowed users to use the camera with a full-featured interface. The interface provides an impressive number of controls for the camera, as well as the ability to stream video and do simple face recognition.<\/span><\/p>\n

These days, there are a variety of ESP32 camera boards from several manufacturers, each sporting a slightly different set of features. Today, we will look at one of the newest ones, the tiny Seeeduino XIAO ESP32S3 Sense board.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

XIAO ESP32S3 Sense<\/span><\/p>\n

The Seeeduino XIAO ESP32S3 Sense<\/a> board actually consists of two separate boards:<\/span><\/p>\n