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ESP-IDF: ESP32 GPIO – Control Digital Outputs

Rui Santos — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 13:54:23 +0000

In this guide, you’ll learn how to set and control the ESP32 board’s GPIO pins as digital outputs with ESP-IDF (Espressif IoT Development Framework). The ESP32 is a microcontroller that ...

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ESP32-CAM: Display Pictures in Firebase Web App

Sara Santos — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 13:21:02 +0000

In this guide, you’ll create a Firebase Web App to display the last picture taken with an ESP32-CAM saved in the Firebase Storage. The Web App also shows the date ...

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VS Code and pioarduino IDE: Programming the ESP32 (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux)

Sara Santos — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 09:40:16 +0000

Learn how to program the ESP32 boards using VS Code (Microsoft Visual Studio Code) with the pioarduino IDE extension. The pioarduino IDE extension supports the latest Arduino core for the ...

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ESP32-CAM Save Picture in Firebase Storage

Sara Santos — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 09:50:02 +0000

In this guide, you’ll learn how to take and upload a picture to Firebase Storage using the ESP32-CAM. You’ll create a Firebase project with Storage that allows you to store ...

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ESP-IDF: ESP32 Blink LED Example (VS Code)

Rui Santos — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 13:26:58 +0000

Learn how to blink an LED on an ESP32 board with ESP-IDF (Espressif IoT Development Framework). The ESP-IDF was developed by Espressif, and it is the “official” way to program ...

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Firebase: Control ESP32 GPIOs from Anywhere

Sara Santos — Mon, 26 May 2025 08:39:00 +0000

In this guide, you’ll learn how to control the ESP32 GPIOs from anywhere using Firebase. We’ll create nodes on the Firebase Realtime Database to save the current GPIO states. Whenever ...

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Programming ESP32 with ESP-IDF using VS Code – Getting Started Guide

Rui Santos — Thu, 22 May 2025 13:10:18 +0000

Learn how to program the ESP32 boards with the ESP-IDF (Espressif IoT Development Framework). The ESP-IDF was developed by Espressif and it is intended for development of Internet of Things ...

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ESP32-CAM QR Code Reader User Management System (Web Server)

Rui Santos — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 14:56:21 +0000

In this project, you’ll build a QR code user management system with a web server that runs on an ESP32-CAM. The ESP32-CAM is constantly using its camera to scan for ...

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ESP32-CAM PIR Motion Detector with Photo Capture (saves to microSD card)

Rui Santos — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 07:58:00 +0000

In this project, we’re going to make a motion sensor detector with photo capture using an ESP32-CAM. When the PIR sensor detects motion, the ESP32 wakes up, takes a photo, ...

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ESP32-CAM QR Code Reader/Scanner (Arduino IDE)

Rui Santos — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 12:03:51 +0000

Learn how to build a QR code reader/scanner with the ESP32-CAM board programmed with Arduino IDE. The ESP32-CAM is constantly using its camera to scan for new QR codes using ...

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