Uploaded June 2020 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
This tutorial illustrates the Arduino core basic camera example running on a HW-818 ESP32 board.
All the code shown here comes from the Arduino core example and the aim of this video is to demonstrate how to use it as a simple way to confirm our hardware is working before jumping into custom code for our application.
This example will start a HTTP server from which we can get a camera stream, take images and fine tune a lot of camera parameters (resolution, brightness, contrast...) from a UI.
Arduino Example: github.com/espressif/arduino-esp32/tree/master/libraries/ESP32/examples/Camera/CameraWebServer
The camera model used in the video can be bought at ebay for around 10 euros: ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=m570.l1313&_nkw=ESP32-CAM-CH340&_sacat=0&LH_TitleDesc=0&_osacat=0&_odkw=HW-818+esp32
A camera tutorial from my blog: techtutorialsx.com/2020/06/10/esp32-camera-image-server
Plenty more written tutorials for the ESP32 at my blog:
techtutorialsx.com/category/esp32
This tutorial illustrates the Arduino core basic camera example running on a HW-818 ESP32 board.
All the code shown here comes from the Arduino core example and the aim of this video is to demonstrate how to use it as a simple way to confirm our hardware is working before jumping into custom code for our application.
This example will start a HTTP server from which we can get a camera stream, take images and fine tune a lot of camera parameters (resolution, brightness, contrast...) from a UI.
Arduino Example: github.com/espressif/arduino-esp32/tree/master/libraries/ESP32/examples/Camera/CameraWebServer
The camera model used in the video can be bought at ebay for around 10 euros: ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=m570.l1313&_nkw=ESP32-CAM-CH340&_sacat=0&LH_TitleDesc=0&_osacat=0&_odkw=HW-818+esp32
A camera tutorial from my blog: techtutorialsx.com/2020/06/10/esp32-camera-image-server
Plenty more written tutorials for the ESP32 at my blog:
techtutorialsx.com/category/esp32
