/en/tags/esp32-cam/Recent content in ESP32-CAM on Mi&Bee BlogHugo -- gohugo.ioen蓝宝石的傻话Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000/en/posts/iot/ai-thinker-esp32-cam-flash/Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000/en/posts/iot/ai-thinker-esp32-cam-flash/<h2 id="why">Why</h2> <p>I built a surveillance camera with ESP32-S3 before, and it worked well. Later, while rummaging through a drawer, I found an AI-Thinker ESP32-CAM development board — that classic board costing about ten bucks with a built-in OV2640 camera and TF card slot. No reason to let it go to waste, so I built another one: <a href="https://github.com/Mi-Bee-Studio/ai-thinker-esp32-cam">ai-thinker-esp32-cam</a>.</p> <p>This time I wrote the firmware from scratch using ESP-IDF again, with similar capabilities to the previous project but with lots of adaptations for the AI-Thinker board. Here&rsquo;s what it ended up doing:</p>