Twenty Months to Ship a Tiny SLAM Camera: From ESP32 Prototype to 10g Board
k7agar · x · 2026-09-15
Indie developer Asad Memon documents a 20-month journey from an out-of-memory ESP32 prototype to a 10g camera with onboard IMU and compute running visual-inertial odometry and loop closure, giving hobby robots SLAM without a companion computer.
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