GitHub Projects

A curated collection of GitHub projects, examples, and resources for the ESP32-S3-DevKitC-1 development board.

Official Espressif Resources

esp-dev-kits Official docs, schematics, factory firmwares for all ESP dev kits

esp-idf ESP-IDF framework with DevKitC-1 User Guide

esp-who AI development framework for face detection and recognition

Board-Specific Examples

Direct DevKitC-1 Projects

Repository	Description
ESP32DE/ESP32-S3-DevKitC-1	ESP32-S3-DevKitC with WROOM-N8 examples
aaric/idf_esp32s3	ESP-IDF sample project with build/flash/monitor
SCorreiaPT/ESP32-S3-DevKitC-1	Test and coding examples
mstfsae/ESP32-S3-DevKitC-1_V1.1_Blinky	LED blink test (GPIO38 vs GPIO48)
billism1/ESP32-S3-DevKitC-1-N16R8	Notes on N16R8 variant configuration
atomic14/esp32-s3-pinouts	Detailed pinout documentation and testing

PlatformIO Support

Official Resources

Resource	Description
Board JSON	Official board definition file
PlatformIO Docs	Board documentation
N16R8 Settings Gist	platformio.ini config for N16R8
Flash/PSRAM Configs	Comprehensive memory configurations

Key Issues & PRs

Issue #1117 - Request for N16R8 support
PR #1383 - Added N16R8 support
Issue #934 - Using bare WROOM-1 modules

Camera & Display Projects

T-CameraPlus-S3 ESP32-S3 camera with 240x240 TFT, mic, speaker, SD card, LVGL UI

LilyGo-Cam-ESP32S3 LilyGO camera module with power management

esp32s3-cam-firmware Camera firmware with BLE, battery management, Opus audio

esp32s3-uvc USB Video Class (UVC) endoscope streaming

TinyML & Edge AI

Repository	Description
TinyML-Split-Model-learning-ESP32-S3	Distributed ML between ESP32-S3 and edge server
XIAO-ESP32S3-Sense	TinyML voice & vision AI with camera, mic, SD
tinyml-esp32-inference	TensorFlow Lite & Edge Impulse deployment
tinyml-esp	Gesture detection with MicroPython & Random Forest
edge-impulse-esp32-cam-classification	MobileNet v1 image classification on TFT
esp32_tinyML	Minimal person detection with TFLite Micro
tinyml-example-anomaly-detection	Anomaly detection with accelerometer

Books & Learning

Resource	Description
Developing IoT Projects with ESP32 (2nd Ed)	Book with baby monitor ML project
ESP-Arduino-PlatformIO	Minimalistic PlatformIO starter template
MicroPython RGB LED Discussion	NeoPixel control examples

RTOS Support

Repository	Description
Zephyr RTOS	Zephyr support for ESP32-S3 boards

MicroEJ / Java

Repository	Description
VEEPort-ESP32-S3-DevKitC-1-N8R8	Run Java on ESP32-S3-DevKitC-1-N8R8

Quick Start Commands

ESP-IDF

# Set target and build
idf.py set-target esp32s3
idf.py build

# Flash and monitor
idf.py -p /dev/ttyUSB0 flash
idf.py -p /dev/ttyUSB0 monitor

PlatformIO

; platformio.ini for N16R8
[env:esp32-s3-devkitc-1]
platform = espressif32
board = esp32-s3-devkitc-1
framework = arduino
board_build.flash_mode = qio
board_build.psram_type = opi
board_upload.flash_size = 16MB
board_build.arduino.memory_type = qio_opi

Version Reference

Board Version	RGB LED GPIO	Notes
V1.0	GPIO48	Original release
V1.1	GPIO38	Current production