Gesture LED Control
Lighting · Board: XIAO · Day 81 of 100
Wave your fingers — OpenCV tracks gestures and toggles LEDs on the XIAO ESP32-S3. Camera vision meets embedded control.
How it works
A camera feed runs through OpenCV on the PC, which classifies your finger gestures and sends the result over serial to the XIAO ESP32-S3. The board just switches LEDs — the vision system does the thinking. Camera input, embedded output, one serial link between them.
What you'll learn
- Computer vision input
- Gesture classification
- Vision-to-embedded bridge
- Serial result passing
Full project: code, wiring diagram & Wokwi simulation
The complete build guide lives in the original repo. Ours is a summary — the real thing is one click away.
Open full project on GitHub ↗Summary by SkillShop. Project by Kritish Mohapatra — code and diagrams belong to the original repo.
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