Romeo ESP32-S3 Development Board for Robotics FPV RC Car

This ESP32-S3 development board has the ESP32-S3-WROOM-1U-N16R8 module onboard, providing excellent computational power and wireless communication for your robot. The board includes a 4-channel 2.5A DC motor driver, so you won’t need an extra motor driver board, making your project setup easier. It also comes with an OV2640 camera that has a 2-megapixel resolution and a 68° field of view, supporting up to 1600 x 1200 resolution for clear visual input.

Inside the ESP32-S3-WROOM-1U-N16R8 module, you’ll find 16MB Flash and 8MB PSRAM, providing plenty of storage for your code and data. The integrated ESP32-S3 chip improves the robot’s neural network computation and signal processing abilities. The Romeo ESP32-S3 supports Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 5 (LE), making wireless control and image transmission much easier. You can program this board using various environments like Arduino IDE, ESP-IDF, and MicroPython, allowing you to work with both C++ language and Python effortlessly.

Note: Before burning the code, press and hold BOOT, click the reset button, and release BOOT to enter download mode

Features

• A four-channel 2.5A high-current H-bridge motor driver
• Supporting both PH/EN control mode and PWM control mode
• Multiple 5V power outputs, facilitating servo motor control
• An autonomous camera power circuit
• On-board GDI display, DVP camera, USB, and MicroSD card interfaces
• Featuring the on-board ESP32-S3-1U-N16R8 (16MB FLASH / 8MB PSRAM)
• Dual-mode communication through Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 5 (LE).

What’s on Board

Specifications

Basic Parameters

• Type-C Input Voltage: 5V
• Operating Voltage: 3.3V
• VIN Input Voltage: 7-24V
• VM Input Voltage: 5-24V
• Maximum Output Current of 5V Power Supply: 2A
• Motor Drive Capacity: 2.5A
• Operating Temperature: 0 to 60℃
• Dimension: 25.4 x 60mm

Hardware Information

• Processor: Xtensa® dual-core 32-bit LX7 microprocessor
• Main Frequency: 240 MHz
• SRAM: 512KB
• ROM: 384KB
• Flash: 16MB
• PSRAM: 8MB
• RTC SRAM: 16KB
• USB: USB 2.0 OTG full-speed

WIFI

• WIFI Protocol: IEEE 802.11b/g/n
• Bandwidth: Support 20 MHz and 40 MHz at 2.4 GHz band
• WIFI Mode: Station, SoftAP, SoftAP+Station combined mode
• WIFI Frequency: 2.4GHz
• Frame Aggregation: TX/RX A-MPDU, TX/RX A-MSDU

Bluetooth

• Bluetooth Protocol: Bluetooth 5, Bluetooth mesh
• Bluetooth Frequency: 125 Kbps, 500 Kbps, 1 Mbps, 2 Mbps

Ports

• 27x Digital I/O
• LED PWM Controller 8 Channels
• 4x SPI
• 3x UART
• 2x I2C
• 2x I2S
• IR Transceiver: 5x transmit channels, 5x receive channels
• 2x 12-bit SAR ADC, 20 Channels
• DMA Controller: 5x transmit channels, 5x receive channels

Resources

• Product wiki
• Schematics
• Dimension

Package Contents

• 1x Romeo ESP32-S3 Development Board
• 1x OV2640 camera