The brains of the robot is an ESP32-CAM—a microcontroller board which includes a built-in camera. Thanks to its onboard Wi-Fi, it’s able to host its own website that allows control of the robot and transmits back pictures from the camera. The ESP32 cam itself is mounted on the ...
In this example, we’re using the CAMERA_MODEL_AI_THINKER, so it’s the one that is enabled. Otherwise, it will fail the pin assignment and the camera will fail to init. There are many esp32-cam boards being released (“fake boards”) that the wiring between the ESP32 and the OV ...
One thing you cannot do, however, is to substitute a higher-resolution camera, like a 5 megapixel one. The way that the ESP32CAM module works prevents this from being done. As for mounting, I solved that by mounting the ESP32CAM module on a separate board, which plugs into my main b...