ESP32-CAM

The board as it appears on the Velxio canvas, with its full pin map read live from the simulator (regenerated by scripts/gen-boards.mjs, so it always matches what you can wire).

Family: ESP32 (classic) · Languages: Arduino C++, MicroPython, ESP-IDF

About this board

The ESP32-CAM is the DevKit’s sensor-carrying cousin: an ESP32 with a 2 MP camera module and a microSD slot, on a board that breaks out only 16 pins because the camera bus claims most of them.

The camera is emulated, not a placeholder — the simulator feeds frames to the firmware, so a webcam sketch produces a real picture in the browser. That is why this board’s starter is the webcam demo rather than a blink: a bare LED sketch would say nothing about the one thing the board exists for.

Start here

• Webcam demo — the camera streaming, the shortest path to seeing the board work.
• Live preview on an ILI9341 — the same frames pushed to a wired TFT.

Pins (16)

• 5V.1
• GND.1
• 12
• 13
• 15
• 14
• 2
• 4
• 3V3
• 16
• 0
• GND.2
• VCC
• RX
• TX
• GND.3

Every pin above is clickable on the canvas — click one to start a wire. Board-level behavior, quirks and example links live on the family page.