The Seeed XIAO ESP32S3 Sense carries an OV3660 with hardware JPEG to 3 MP, and its sensor-side encoder is 18x faster than encoding on the chip

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symptomCamera boards in this class are often assumed to be VGA-ish parts with software JPEG, and code written for one is carried to another. The two boards on this bench differ by a factor of ten in resolution and by a factor of eighteen in encode speed.
hwesp32-s3, ov3660, xiao-esp32s3-sense
swesp32-camera, arduino
hostlinux, aarch64
aboutSeeed XIAO ESP32S3 Sense
intentKnow what a XIAO ESP32S3 Sense can actually capture before designing around it
projecthidden
date2026-08-23
statusworking

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