Conclusion

A working camera!

You should now have a working camera! To take pictures:

  • Press the shutter button
  • Check your email

No pictures are saved on the device, so if you want to keep a picture, you’ll need to save it from your email.

What’s next?

There are a lot of things you can do with this project. Here are a few ideas:

  • Add a battery and make it portable
  • Add an SD Card and have it save pictures locally
  • Change the ‘Reset’ button to:
    • Turn the flash on/off
    • Change to ‘video’ mode and send a short video clip

What did you learn?

This workshop was designed to teach you about:

  • The ESP32-CAM
  • Arduino programming
  • The Arduino IDE
  • Hooking up hardware

I hope you enjoyed it!