Metro Hydra connects a camera and display to an electronics project
Adafruit is offering Metro ESP32-P4 Hydra, a small board of electronic components that runs a project’s program and connects to a camera and display. It could form a panel showing images from a compatible camera. It does not support every Raspberry Pi camera.
A compatible camera feeding Metro Hydra, whose program prepares an image for a display.
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The ESP32-P4 runs the program and handles image-related work. A separate ESP32-C6 provides wireless connectivity, with some radio features requiring suitable software. Its connection layout resembles an Arduino UNO, but that does not make every accessory compatible.
Compatibility comes before choosing parts
Adafruit lists OV5647-based cameras as supported and IMX708 models as unsupported. The current product uses the ESP32-P4 v1 chip, rather than P4X v3, a different revision. CircuitPython, software for programming these devices, still lists ESP32-P4 support as experimental in release 11.0.0-alpha.2.