ESP32 Camera with USB Connectivity

Note: Stock from April 2023 is a new version with CH340 chip to provide USB connectivity. In other words, no more using FTDI programmer to use the ESP32-CAM :)

ESP32-CAM is an ESP32 Wireless IoT Vision Development Board in a tiny form factor, designed to be used in various IoT projects, such as home smart devices, industrial wireless control, wireless monitoring, QR wireless identification, and so on. It supports deep sleep mode with power consumption as low as 6mA at 5V, making it ideal for portable IoT applications. It's suitable as a low-cost CCTV camera.

Check out this easy setup to use the ESP32-CAM by Easy One:

ESP32-CAM module comes with two rows of male header pins soldered. Prototyping and testing can be carried out right away. 

Pinout Diagram:

Minimal Functional Circuit

• Always power up the board with at least a 5V 2A power supply to eliminate horizontal colored lines across the camera image. Please make sure that the 5V power source is able to maintain 5V output when the ESP32-CAM module is streaming.
• DO NOT pull the IO0 (Input Output Zero) pin to logic HIGH or LOW during normal operation.

• The smallest 802.11b/g/n/e/i Wi-Fi BT SoC Module
• Working Voltage: 5V
• Package: DIP-16
• SPI Flash: Default 32Mbit
• Built-in 520KB SRAM and 4M PSRAM
• Supports UART/SPI/PWM/I2C
• Comes with OV2640 Camera (can also support OV7670 cameras)
• Built-in Flash lamp.
• Support micro SD card (max 4GB)
• Supports multiple sleep modes
  • Deep sleep: the lowest power consumption can reach 6mA@5V
  • Light-sleep: The lowest can reach 6.7mA@5V
  • Modern sleep: The lowest can reach 20mA@5V
• Antenna: onboard PCB antenna, gain 2dBi
• 9 x I/O Ports
• Dimension: 27mm x 48mm x 4.5mm (HxLxW)

• 1 x ESP32-CAM Wireless IoT Vision Development Board (camera module included)

• Getting Started with New ESP32-CAM (CH340), tutorial by Cytron Technologies