What can you build with ESP32?
Explore watches, displays, robots, controllers and sensors. Compare the assessed builds, then follow the sources for projects still awaiting review.
Already assessed

A small ESP32-C3 desk companion with animated faces, web controls and a published low-cost parts list.

An ESP32-CAM project that reads existing water, gas or electricity meters and publishes the readings digitally.

A printable ESP32 quadruped using eight servos, an expressive OLED face and open animation/control software.

A modular ESP32-based split-flap display designed to scale from a single character to large installations.

A compact ESP32 curtain robot built to automate an existing curtain rail without ropes or pulleys.

An open wheeled robot that reuses a smartphone for camera, compute and higher-level robotics while an Arduino Nano or ESP32 handles the motors and low-level sensors.

A current open pan, tilt and slide camera rig using an ESP32 web interface, stepper motors and a fabrication-heavy mix of printed and machined parts.

A compact ESP32 touchscreen teleprompter with touch speed control, a physical pause button and a printable monitor mount.
An ESP32 desk printer that turns weather and calendar data into a short physical morning briefing on receipt paper.

A small ESP32 instrument showing temperature, humidity, pressure and a comfort label on an OLED display.

A fully open-source ESP32-S3 e-paper watch sold as a small assembly kit and designed to be reprogrammed, modified and recased.

An open haptic control knob that uses a brushless gimbal motor and magnetic encoder to create software-defined detents, endstops, springs and other tactile behaviours.
What kind of ESP32 thing?
Displays
Robotics
Home + sensing
Everything currently found

FOC Wheel-Legged Robot
Open wheel-legged robot platform using ESP32-class control hardware.

Voice Controlled Robot
Voice-controlled physical robot project with ESP32 hardware.

ESP32 Robot Actuator
ESP32 based robot actuator and motion-control project.

RobotDuck Head
ESP32 animatronic robot-head project.

ESP32 WiFi Robot
WiFi controlled ESP32 robot source.

ESP32 ROS2 Robot
ESP32 and ROS2 robot platform.

ESP32 Drawing Robot
Drawing robot with ESP32 control.

myClock
ESP32 display clock project.

ESPTimeCast
Current ESP32 information display project.

Plasma Clock
Distinctive physical clock build with a stronger visual proposition than a generic dev-board demo.

RGB P4 Matrix Clock
Large RGB matrix clock using ESP32.

LilyGo T5 Clock
E-paper clock route built around LilyGo hardware.

CYD Weather Clock
Cheap Yellow Display weather and clock build.

ESPTimeCast VFD
VFD display variant with strong physical character.

Open Smartwatch
The selected Light hardware repository has not been pushed since 2021 and its own README says the hardware is still in development and not ready for release. The Open Smartwatch OS repository remains active in 2026, but active software alone does not establish a current supported hardware build route.

LilyGo T-Watch Projects
Hardware and software ecosystem for ESP32 smartwatch builds.

Meshtastic Devices
Large open physical-device ecosystem using ESP32 and LoRa hardware.

openHASP Panels
Open ESP32 touchscreen control-panel platform.

WLED Builds
Massive ESP32 lighting ecosystem with many physical build routes.

ESPHome Devices
Broad ESP32 device ecosystem that deserves its own discovery treatment rather than a single project card.