ESP32-S3
3.5-inch rounded LCD screen development board
Integrated audio input and output modules to enable AI interaction and offline voice contro


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Product Features
This product is a high-performance, highly integrated microcontroller development board designed by Waveshare. It is equipped with a 3.5-inch capacitive high-definition IPS screen, a highly integrated power management chip, a six-axis sensor (three-axis accelerometer and three-axis gyroscope), RTC, a low-power audio codec chip and other peripherals, which are easy to develop and embed into products. No assembly or wiring is required, and you can easily play with Xiaozhi AI.
- Equipped with ESP32-S3R8 high-performance Xtensa 32-bit LX7 dual-core processor, with a main frequency of up to 240MHz
- Supports 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g/n) and Bluetooth 5 (LE), onboard antenna
- Built-in 512 KB SRAM and 384 KB ROM, stacked with 8 MB PSRAM and external 16 MB Flash
- The Type-C interface improves user convenience and device compatibility
- Onboard 3.5-inch capacitive touch HD IPS screen, 320 × 480 resolution, 262K color, can clearly display color pictures
- Built-in ST7796 driver chip and FT6336 capacitive touch chip, using SPI and I2C interface communication respectively, without occupying too many interface pin resources
- Onboard QMI8658 six-axis inertial measurement unit (3-axis acceleration, 3-axis gyroscope) can detect motion posture, step counting and other functions
- Onboard PCF85063 RTC chip, connected to the battery through AXP2101 to achieve uninterrupted power supply, and reserved backup battery pad to ensure that the RTC function continues to work when the main battery is replaced
- Onboard PWR and BOOT two customizable side buttons, convenient for custom function development using buttons
- Onboard 3.7V MX1.25 lithium battery charging and discharging interface
- Lead out I2C, UART, USB and multiple GPIOs for external devices and debugging, and flexibly configure peripheral functions
- Onboard Micro SD card slot provides expanded storage, fast data transfer and flexibility for data logging and media playback, simplifying circuit design
- Onboard camera interface, supports mainstream cameras such as OV5640, OV2640, etc.
- The advantages of using AXP2101 are efficient power management, support for multiple output voltages, charge management and battery management functions, and optimization of battery life
Support AI voice interaction
No need for complicated assembly and wiring steps, quickly connect to Xiaozhi AI of Brother Xia,
and it will become your exclusive intelligent AI partner.
Supports a number of domestic large language models such as DeepSeek, Doubao, Tongyi Qianwen, etc.


Capacitive touch
Applicable to the development of various intelligent devices and can realize human-computer interaction functions

IPS display panel
Excellent display performance, 262K color, wide viewing angle

Onboard audio codec chip
Supports high-quality audio processing, providing clear, high-quality audio input and output

Supports mainstream cameras such as OV2640 / OV5640
The version with OV5640 camera is optional. The OV5640 camera supports 5 million pixels and is suitable for image acquisition, video surveillance and other application scenarios to meet diverse needs.

(Only housing version with OV5640 camera)
Support ESP-IDF, Arduino
Equipped with a complete SDK and open source tutorials, it is easy to get started and can be quickly embedded into the application

Supports Wi-Fi and BLE 5
ESP32-S3 integrates 2.4GHz Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g/n) with 40MHz bandwidth, and its low-power Bluetooth subsystem supports Bluetooth 5 (LE) and Bluetooth Mesh

Resource Overview

- ESP32-S3R8
Wi-Fi and Bluetooth SoC, running at 240MHz, with 8MB PSRAM on-chip
- Onboard patch antenna
- W25Q128JVSIQ
16MB NOR-Flash
- Camera interface
Support mainstream cameras such as OV5640 / OV2640
- Micro SD card slot
- IPEX 1st generation transposon
Can be switched to use external antenna by unsoldering resistor
- MX1.25 speaker port
- BOOT button
- RESET button
- PWR button
- AXP2101
Highly integrated power management chip
- Charging indicator
- Type-C port
- ES8311
Low power audio codec chip
- Power indicator
- microphone
- SH1.0 RTC battery interface
Access to rechargeable RTC battery
- MX1.25 Li-ion battery port
MX1.25 2PIN connector, can be used to connect 3.7V lithium battery, supports charging and discharging
- 2.54mm header interface
Lead out available IO function pins for easy expansion
- PCF85063
RTC clock chip
- QMI8658
Six-axis inertial measurement unit (IMU), including a 3-axis gyroscope and a 3-axis accelerometer
Pin Definition

Product size
Version without housing
Version with housing
[] ESP32-S3-Touch-LCD-3.5【No Case-Camera】
[] ESP32-S3-Touch-LCD-3.5-C【With Case-Camera】

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