Freenove ESP32-WROVER CAM Board with Memory Card

Worked great. Everyone should own at least one.

Really useful IoT microcontroller. It's extremely versatile and well designed.

I set up a bird feeder this summer and wanted a motion-triggered camera to capture footage of the lovely feathered friends who come visit. I would have gone with a Raspberry Pi but for the outrageous prices. Instead I went with this ESP32-WROVER kit at a fraction of the price. And it is a WINNER!The kit come with software hosted at the vendor's site. I use PlatformIO in VS Code and had some apprehensions about compatibility. It took a little experimentation with the configuration settings in the platformio.ini file to get off the ground. I modeled my program on their sample sketch and it was magic!It helps to be proficient in C/C++ to make the most of this kit. The software supplied by the vendor has many features, not all of which I have explored. It sets up the ESP32 as a web-server on the local network. The path operation function of each path operation / route can be used with small modifications in own code.For example, I am setting up the ESP32 as an MQTT client to send images to a MQTT broker in the Cloud. From there I ingest images into a Node-RED workflow and send myself Telegram notifications when a bird comes to my bird-feeder. I have used the callback of the '/capture' route in my code for this purpose.This is a very fun kit with a lot of potential! And since it is based on ESP32-WROVER dev board, there is no need for an FTDI converter for flashing firmware - a USB data cable between PC and ESP32 is sufficient. I plan to work with this kit some more and at that price point, buy more of these for IoT imaging applications.Thank you!

Only complaint is the camera ribbon tears easily but only if you’re not careful like me.

Camera works just great.

includes the camera ov2650 (not mentionned) which doesn't work with home assistant. 2640 needed

Projects using this module, programmed in Arduino script, step up from flashing an LED to running a web-based live video cam, all of which work perfectly if you follow the pdf instructions. Clearly written, step-by-step. WiFi, Bluetooth LE, TCP/IP; you'll learn a lot.

A great value among programmable boards. This one's camera uses the GPIO pins so those aren't available at the same time. There are 16 LEDC channels but it looks like the camera uses 2. Great wifi connection. The camera performs way better at 22Mhz xclk (from default 20Mhz) and that hardly increases the heat. Incredibly helpful example projects are available through the ESP32 arduino DB, putting your wifi info into the premade http camera server may be the only programming you do on this board... And you can find all the ESP32 libraries on github for referencing. You can power it with 5v or 3v3 with different pins, the 5v is near the USB connector.