Camera Kit With Focus Lens and Microphone

Development Board Camera Kit With Focus Lens and Microphone

2025-05-07 From Margit Kuther | Translated by AI 2 min Reading Time

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Espressif presents its powerful RISC-V SoC ESP32-P4 now with the camera kit ESP32-P4-EYE for real-time image processing and wireless communication.

Espressif ESP32-P4-EYE: Vision development kit for real-time monitoring.(Image: E) — Espressif ESP32-P4-EYE: Vision development kit for real-time monitoring.
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ESP32-P4-EYE is a vision development board based on the ESP32-P4 chip aimed at camera applications. The ESP32-P4 features a dual-core RISC-V processor with a 400 MHz clock and supports up to 32 MB PSRAM.

Furthermore, the ESP32-P4 supports the USB 2.0 standard, MIPI-CSI/DSI, and H264 encoder. The board is suitable for smart surveillance cameras, vision model detection, and edge computing in IoT, which require real-time image processing and wireless communication.

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ESP32-P4-EYE: Front of the Espressif camera board.(Image: Espressif)

ESP32-P4-EYE: Back of the Espressif camera board.(Image: Espressif)

ESP32-P4-EYE: PCB top view(Image: Espressif)

The ESP32-C6-MINI-1U module for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth communication supports the MIPI-CSI camera interface and USB 2.0 high-speed device mode. Onboard features include a camera, display, microphone, and microSD card, enabling real-time monitoring of the environment and capturing image and audio data.

Most I/O pins are broken out to the pin header to facilitate connectivity. Developers can connect peripherals using jumper wires.

Further Details About the Development Board

The development board is based on the ESP32-P4 chip from Espressif—a component that Espressif already announced in January 2023, but was slow to come to market. It features two 32-bit RISC-V processor cores up to 400 MHz and a low-power companion core up to 40 MHz, 768 kB static RAM (SRAM), and vector extensions to accelerate machine learning and artificial intelligence (ML and AI) on the device. It also includes other functions tailored to video and image processing tasks, including a two-dimensional graphics accelerator and an image processing unit for hardware-accelerated H.265 and JPEG encoding and decoding.

While the company's previous development boards for the ESP32-P4 had a more traditional design, the ESP32-P4-EYE is a camera—quite literally, as it comes with a case in the familiar, somewhat outdated compact camera form factor. On the back is a 1.54"-240×240-SPI-connected LCD, and on the front is a two-megapixel camera sensor with a manual focus lens. On the top of the case is a rotary encoder with a push-button function to control a user interface, as well as a small lump housing an LED as a flash and a digital microphone for sound recording.

Inside the case, the development board contains an ESP32-C6-MINI-1U module, which serves as a Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 5.0, and IEEE 802.15.4 communication coprocessor, 16 MB flash storage, and a 20-pin expansion socket that exposes unused GPIO (General Purpose Input/Output) ports.

On the front, there are also two buttons, but don't expect either of them to take a photo: one is for boot selection and the other for reset. There's a microSD card slot for storage and two USB Type-C ports, one USB On-The-Go (OTG) and one debug port, for data and power. (mk)

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