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Internet of Things Projects with ESP32

You're reading from   Internet of Things Projects with ESP32 Build exciting and powerful IoT projects using the all-new Espressif ESP32

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789956870
Length 252 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with ESP32 2. Making Visual Data and Animation on an LCD FREE CHAPTER 3. Building a Simple Game with an Embedded ESP32 Board 4. Building a Sensor Monitoring Logger 5. Controlling IoT Devices over the Internet 6. Building an IoT Weather Station 7. Making Your Own Wi-Fi Wardriving 8. Building Your Own Wi-Fi Cam 9. Making IoT Devices Interact with Mobile Applications 10. Building IoT Monitoring with Cloud Technology 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Introducing Wi-Fi cams

A Wi-Fi cam is a system that performs sensing through a camera. With the use of a camera, we can obtain the current image within a moving video format.

In this chapter, we will focus on working with a camera on an ESP32 board. Technically, we can connect a camera module on the ESP32 board through a Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) protocol. SPI is a serial communication protocol such as UART, but SPI has a synchronous interface that uses a dedicated clock signal. SPI usually has three pins: MOSI, MISO, and CS. You can find these pins on the ESP32 board layout.

The ESP-WROVER-KIT board provides a camera connector; this is shown in Figure 8.1:

Figure 8.1: A camera connector on the ESP-WROVER-KIT v4 board

The camera connector on the ESP-WROVER-KIT board is supported by the OV7670 camera module. This module is shown in Figure 8.2; it is cost-friendly and you...

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