Esp32-Stick-PoE-A-Cam (N16R8)

What is it?

This is an upgraded version of Esp32-Stick development board with Ethernet and active PoE support. The board supports camera and uses Esp32-S3 chip with 16MB Flash and 8MB Ram.

Why did you make it?

It was made because the original Esp32-Stick boards lacked the camera support. Moreover it was impossible to handle both the camera and the Ethernet using classic vanilla Esp32 since both peripherals require a lot of pins. So we decided to build the upgraded board around Esp32-S3, which has much more pins and W5500 SPI ethernet module.

What makes it special?

Pin-to-pin compatibility with other Esp32-Stick-Cam boards, Camera, Machine Learning examples and active PoE support!

Interesting features

Ov2640 and Ov5640 Camera support.
36 Gpios(17 are not used by Ethernet or the camera)
USB Type-C
Esp32-Stick-Poe-A-Cam has 5V output, so you can power additional peripherals.
Esp32-Stick-Cam boards are fully programmable in Arduino and are supported in ESPHome home automation environment.
No external USB-UART converter is required, ready for plug-and-play programming!
All the Esp32-Stick-Cam boards have the same length and width so they can easily be replaced with one another.
Any code written for one board is compatible with another because they share the same CPU and pinout.

Characteristics

ESP32-S3-WROOM-1 (N16R8) with 16MB Flash, 8MB ram.
USB-C connector.
36 Gpios(17 are not used by Ethernet or the camera).
W5500 chip for the Ethernet.
Si3404-A(PoE-A)
CH340G USB-UART converter.
USER-Led(GPIO2).
Reset button and User button(GPIO0).
Accepts power through: USB, External source (3.3V-5V),Active POE
the 3.3V branch(Ams1117) can provide 700mA of current, the 5V branch(Si3404-A) also provides 700mA.

Examples

Basic Camera+Ethernet Platofrmio Example: https://github.com/allexoK/Esp32-Stick-Cam-Boards-Platformio
Machine Learning tutorials are provided in pdf: https://github.com/allexoK/Esp32-Stick-Cam-Machine-Learning-Guides
Hackaday Project: https://hackaday.io/project/193356-esp32-stick-camesp32-s3activepassivepoecamera
ESPHome YAML example: https://github.com/allexoK/Esp32-Stick-Cam-Boards-ESPHome