ESP32 Forum

Hi all, I recently got an ESP32S3, and I plan to make a small micro drone. I have the board, the sense camera, and some motors, but there are very few resources on how this works. I'm very, very new and would like to know a good place to start. Essentially what I want to do is control some small dc motors (3 V) using the board, using the camera to allow the drone to move autonomously to a destination. Im not sure in the slightest of how to make this happen, and thought that if I posted here, I could find some resources. I also heard that the board was capable of tiny ML, and id like to learn how to incorporate that too. But currently, all I want to know is how can I connect my dc motors to the ESP32S3, and utilize the camera to allow my drone to move in a direction. I'm not even sure if an ESP32S3 is capable of doing these things, and if it is I have no idea how to figure it all out, so therefore Im asking here. I'm very, very new to all of this, and would like some help. Thank you!

Look in the examples folder.
https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf

For your camera capabilities look at https://github.com/espressif/esp32-camera. There is also a popular ESP32-CAM board you could try out available cheaply from AliExpress and there are some YouTube videos online going into it. If you want to straight away use the S3 rather than have to think about how to make your code work with the S3, you can look at the github example code and the wiring schematic for https://www.seeedstudio.com/XIAO-ESP32S ... -5639.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wvuOsRgmt4