What is the dev that I want to be doing right?

I want some projects that I can demonstrate visually -- most of my stuff is often very cryptic, abstract, with little to see. By that I mean have a nice write up, maybe a video, and have a little collection of them. Experimental projects would be best for that.

• ESP32-CAM in train context.
• Could be as a simple web server demo with an android viewer. For example placed in scenery, or from a top view.
• Power from USB brick.
• Point is to show the simplicity and versatility of this.
• ESP32-CAM with OpenCV.
• That requires a bit more research.
• Use integrated web server to see output.
• Point is to demonstrate we can do embedded detection on the ESP32.
• ESP32-CAM as “occupancy detector” without OpenCV.
• This is the simple “things move in the image” kind of demo.
• Use integrated web server to see output.
• ESP32 with OLED send a JMRI JSON.
• The OLED is nice because it adds a visual component. It makes it less abstract.
• Point out that the OLED is a nice status/debugging tool.
• This is the kind of thing to do in MicroPython as it becomes trivial.

One tutorial for later would be “hacking the NCE AIU”, for example for the EB1. This requires more thought to explain why it’s useful for. It has less appeal (lesser known hardware).