askpatrickw

Research about the ESP32-S2 Camera Interface

I am very interested in the ESP32-S2's camera port and the possibility of using it for a variety of MicroPython\CircuitPython projects. My hope is that the ESP32-S2 will the ability to do do things similiar to what is possible on the Raspberry Pi. Today there is no ESP32-S2 board available which exposes this port, and no camera modeles, but I wanted to understand the hardware capabilities to understand what might be possible and just as important, what is not.

This write up is based on solely on a morning's worth of research. If there are errors

DarinM223

My explanation of the main concepts in Rust

There are three main concepts with Rust:

1. Ownership (only one variable "owns" the data at one time, and the owner is in charge of deallocating)
2. Borrowing (you can borrow a reference to an owned variable)
3. Lifetimes (all data keeps track of when it will be destroyed)

These are fairly simple concepts, but they are often counter-intuitive to concepts in other languages, so I wanted to give a shot at