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Internet of Things Projects with ESP32

By : Agus Kurniawan
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Internet of Things Projects with ESP32

By: Agus Kurniawan

Overview of this book

ESP32 is a low-cost MCU with integrated Wi-Fi and BLE. Various modules and development boards-based on ESP32 are available for building IoT applications easily. Wi-Fi and BLE are a common network stack in the Internet of Things application. These network modules can leverage your business and projects needs for cost-effective benefits. This book will serve as a fundamental guide for developing an ESP32 program. We will start with GPIO programming involving some sensor devices. Then we will study ESP32 development by building a number of IoT projects, such as weather stations, sensor loggers, smart homes, Wi-Fi cams and Wi-Fi wardriving. Lastly, we will enable ESP32 boards to execute interactions with mobile applications and cloud servers such as AWS. By the end of this book, you will be up and running with various IoT project-based ESP32 chip.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Accessing the camera from ESP32

To access the OV7670 camera module from the ESP32 board, we need to connect its pins onto the board. Figure 8.7 shows the Pin Mapping recommendation to connect the OV7670 camera module to the ESP32 board:

Figure 8.7: Mapping the OV7670 camera module to the ESP32 board

One of the advantages of using the ESP-WROVER-KIT board is that you don't need an additional camera connector; you can plug the OV7670 camera module into the board.

The disadvantage of using the ESP-WROVER-KIT board is that you cannot use the OV7670 camera module with a camera connector and the LCD simultaneously, because the camera connector and the LCD pins use the same wiring on the board. You should change these pins manually if you want it to work for both the OV7670 camera module and for the LCD on the ESP-WROVER-KIT board.

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