You'll also find a course that teaches you how to program ESP32 without traditional coding. By the end of these courses, total beginners will know how to use microcontrollers with confidence.

I get that this is more of a generalized rant rather than one at the ESP32 ecosystem, but just to correct a few things here. Note I’m an Espressif employee, with all the biases that come with that.

I program the ESP32 cams with just the FTDI adapter and DuPont wires. As this board has 2 GND’s, just connect 1 to the programmer, and 1 to the flash pin. Then plug in the USB of the FTDI ...