AiTrip 5 Pack ESP32-CAM WiFi + Bluetooth Module Development Board with OV2640 Camera Module

They work great with a good bit of lighting. They were also cheaply priced so I bought quiet afew. They can be hard to program if you don't have a programmer and the software to put on them. Look on YouTube and the website from the manufacturer and you'll love them too

All but 1 of my boards did work, but 2 of the include cameras did not work, however, given the price, no big deal. Here is my recommendation, ONLY IF the price of ESP32-S boards without USB are cheaper) don't buy these for the camera capability... rather buy them as cheap ESP32-S boards, that might have potential video capabilities that you probably won't ever actually want to use, then you might be ok. The camera quality is very low, and the sensor size is quite small, meaning really, really dark images unless you have a lot of back-lighting. Don't even consider these for low-light use.They also have no USB connection, which means they don't have a USB-UART chip included like a FT232RL or CH340G, meaning you have to buy a USB-Serial adapter.

I bought ten of these for a product I'm developing. I tried one and designed a circuit board for it. Later I found that the image was rotated. I was extremely confused as to how I could have designed the product wrong. The I figured out that some cameras have the sensor rotated. To my normal bad luck only three of the ten pointed the correct way for my product. I'm screwed now because I will have to buy the cameras separately.Another complaint is that whoever designed the pinout for the board was an idiot. They didn't bring out the reset pin which is needed for easy development. They have several pins that are connected to internal camera or memory chip signals so they are useless. And there is a pin that is just connected to a power input pin. So only 6 of the 16 pins can be used to connect to other devices. Also, they didn't provide an ADC pin so I'm hacking the board and bringing out a wire for that.Otherwise the whole thing works fine.

Good price but not so much when you subtract failures.1 was bad out of the box, it had exposed traces and bad solder. It started smoking when i went to flash it.1 more got extremely hot and started melting the PLA case I made for it.The other 3 running the same code are working just fine. One of the camera modules was worse than the others so I just swapped it.

Using "AI Thinker ESP32-CAM" board settingA fatal error occurred: Failed to connect to ESP32: Timed out waiting for packet headerPower the board and the camera flash light comes on (which it shouldn't), it draws current like it's doing something, but there are no other signs of life. All 5 boards do the same thing so either they're all bad or I'm doing it wrong. But the same board from a different store works fine with the same procedures.Plus these do not come with the programmer MB shown in the pictures.