Arducam ESP32 UNO board

User Guide
Rev 1.0, Jun 2017
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Table of Contents
1 Introduction ....................................................................................................................... 2
2 Features ............................................................................................................................. 2
3 Pin Definition .................................................................................................................... 3
4 Getting Started ESP32 with Arduino IDE ......................................................................... 5
4.1 Steps to install Arducam ESP32 support on Windows .................................................. 5
4.2 Using Arduino IDE ....................................................................................................... 7
4.3 Examples ....................................................................................................................... 9

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1 Introduction
Arducam now released a ESP32 based Arduino board for Arducam mini camera
modules while keeping the same form of factors and pinout as the standard Arduino
UNO R3 board. The high light this ESP32 board is that it well mates with Arducam
mini 2MP and 5MP camera modules, supports Lithium battery power supply and
recharging and with build in SD card slot. It can be an ideal solution for home
security and IoT camera applications.

Figure 1 Arducam ESP32 UNO Kit

2 Features
 Build in ESP-32S Module
 26 digital input/output pins, IO ports are 3.3V tolerant
 Arducam Mini 2MP/5MP camera interface
 Lithium battery recharging 3.7V/500mA max
 Building in SD/TF card socket
 7-12V power jack input
 Build in micro USB-Serial interface
 Compatible with Arduino IDE

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3 Pin Definition

Figure 2 Arducam ESP32 UNO Pin Out

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The board has build in Lithium battery charger, which accepts default
3.7V/500mA Lithium battery. The charging indicator and charging current setting can
be found from the Figure 3.

Figure 3 Battery Charging Indicator and Current Settings

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4 Getting Started ESP32 with Arduino IDE

This chapter shows you how to develop an application for Arducam ESP32 UNO
board using Arduino IDE. (Tested on 32 and 64 bit Windows 10 machines)
4.1 Steps to install Arducam ESP32 support on Windows
 Starting Download and install the latest Arduino IDE Windows Installer from
arduino.cc
 Download and install Git from git-scm.com
 Start Git GUI and run through the following steps:
Select Clone Existing Repository:

Figure 4 Select Clone Existing Repository

Select source and destination:

Source Location: https://github.com/ArduCAM/ArduCAM_ESP32S_UNO.git
Target Directory: C:/Users/[YOUR_USER_NAME]/Documents/Arduino/hardware/
ArduCAM/ArduCAM_ESP32S_UNO

Click Clone to start cloning the repository:

Figure 5 Clone the Repository

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Open C:/Users/[YOUR_USER_NAME]/Documents/Arduino/hardware/
ArduCAM/esp32/tools and double-click get.exe

Figure 6 Install ESP32 board

When get.exe finishes, you should see the following files in the directory

Figure 7 ESP32 board directory

 Plug your ESP32 board and wait for the drivers to install (or install manually
any that might be required)

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4.2 Using Arduino IDE

After installation of Arducam ESP32UNO board, you can select this board from
the Tool->Board menu. And there several ready to use examples from the
File->Examples->ArduCAM. You can use these examples directly or as a starting
point to develop your own code.
 Start Arduino IDE, Select your board in Tools > Board menu>

Figure 8 Board Selection

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 Select the example from File->Examples->ArduCAM

Figure 6 Example Selection

 Configure the camera setting

You need to modify the memorysaver.h file in order to enable OV2640 or
OV5642 camera for ArduCAM Mini 2MP or 5MP camera modules. Only one
camera can be enabled at a time. The memorysaver.h file is located at
C:\Users\Your computer\Documents\Arduino\hardware\ ArduCAM

\ArduCAM_ESP32S_UNO\libraries\ArduCAM

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Figure 7 Camera Configuration

 Compile and uploading

Click uploading the example will automatically flashed into the board.
4.3 Examples
There are 4 examples for both 2MP and 5MP ArduCAM mini camera modules.
 ArduCAM_ESP32_ Capture
This example uses HTTP protocol to capture still or video over home wifi
network from ArduCAM mini 2MP/5MP and display on the web browser.
The default is AP mode, after uploading the demo, you can search the
‘arducam_esp32’and connect it without password.

Figure 8 Mode Configure

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Figure9 Identifying IP address

If you want to use STA mode, you should change ‘int wifiType = 1’ to ‘int
wifiType =0’.Tthe ssid and password should be modifies before uploading.

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Figure10 Wifi Camera Example

After uploading, the board IP address is obtained via DHCP protocol. You can
figure out the IP address through the serial monitor as Figure 9 shown. The default
serial monitor baudrate setting is 115200bps.

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Figure 10 Identifying IP address

Finally, open the index.html , input the IP address obtained from the serial
monitor then take pictures or videos. The html files are located at
C:\Users\Your computer\Documents\Arduino\hardware\ArduCAM\ArduCAM_ESP32S_UNO

\libraries\ArduCAM\examples\ESP32\ArduCAM_ESP32_Capture\html

Figure 11 Example Html page

 ArduCAM_ESP32_Capture2SD
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This example takes time elapse still photos using ArduCAM mini 2MP/5MP
and then stored on the TF/SD card. The LED indicates when the TF/SD card is
writing.

Figure 12 Example ArduCAM_ESP32_Capture2SD

 ArduCAM_ESP32_Video2SD
This example takes motion JPEG video clips using ArduCAM mini 2MP/5MP and
then stored on the TF/SD card as AVI format.

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Figure 13 Example ArduCAM_ESP32_Video2SD

 ArduCAM_ESP32_Sleep
To reduce power consumption,calling the interface function immediately goes into the
Deep - sleep mode.In this mode, the chip will disconnect all wi-fi connections and
data connections and enter the sleep mode. Only the RTC module will still work and
be responsible for the timing of the chip. This demo is suitable for battery power

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Figure 14 Normal mode

Figure 15 DeepSleep mode

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Figure 16 Example ArduCAM_ESP32_Sleep

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