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A Super Easy Security Camera With The ESP32 CAM
A Super Easy Security Camera With The ESP32 CAM
by mcmchris
If you have done any IoT project, you may know that everything almost all the time consist on sensors measuring
physical magnitudes, sending them through the internet and controlling devices with the I/O ports.
But today we are going to learn how to use the ESP32 CAM, that is an ESP32 Development board that has a Built-In
camera.
This board can help us on developing projects that can see, and some interesting aplications are:
Security Camera.
Longs Time Lapse Shots.
3D Printer Monitoring Camera.
Door bell camera.
Etc.
If you are a visual learner I know that a video worth more than 1000 words, so here is a Tutorial video. (I am a Spanish
speaker, so please consider turning on English subtitles):
https://www.youtube.com/embed/5arz361gRGU
As you can noticed, nothing looks very di cult on this project, but you will need some basics knowings about:
-Welding.
Here is the list of materials and tools you will need to do the project yourself.
The ESP32 is board from the ESP family developed by Espressif and if you have used one of their boards, mainly the ESP-
01 (ESP8266), you may know that the GPIO0 (Pin) is the one that decide on the boot mode of the Chip, so for this case you
need to connect a jumper between the GPIO0 and Gnd.
https://dl.espressif.com/dl/package_esp32_index.js...
In the sketch uncomment the model of the ESP32 CAM Click on Start Stream to look what's your camera seeing.
you are using.
CODE HERE.
Put the WiFi credentials and Upload.
Wire up the USB cable through the case so the power wires can be soldered to the power pins (+5v and GND) of the ESP.
Glue the ESP32 CAM so the camera sensor can see through the square cutout.
Just connect your camera in a WiFi reaching place, and go to your browser and look at the place you are watching.