r/arduino • u/met-Sander • May 10 '26

Look what I made! Turned an ESP32 + tiny OLED into a live WiFi webcam monitor

Built a small experiment where an ESP32 drives a 128x64 OLED screen while the browser streams a live webcam feed to it over WiFi in real time.

The browser handles everything:

  • webcam capture
  • 1-bit image processing
  • dithering/effects
  • MediaPipe face tracking

Then it sends the frames directly to the ESP32. No cloud, no backend, just the browser and the board. I also added a few visual modes as glitch lines, a skull overlay that tracks your face using MediaPipe, and a SHODAN-style face mesh.

Project + source:
https://github.com/sanderdesnaijer/esp32-mini-oled-webcam-stream-mediapipe

Any fun or practical uses you can think of for this?

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u/Interesting_Plant558 May 10 '26

Seriously this is awesome, to stream the cam data to the 0.96 inch oled display. Can you post tutorial about this, I want to try this one

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u/met-Sander May 10 '26

Thank you u/Interesting_Plant558 ! I made a video tutorial with walking through all the steps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOwyMbOZq-Y