Pixela overview

Pixela is an ESP32-S3 based camera with two main ways to use it: directly on the device, with the physical button, potentiometer, and OLED screen, or through the built-in web server over Wi-Fi. The firmware combines photo capture, palette-based styles, dithers, video recording, gallery management, quests, manual upload, USB SD export, and several behavior settings.

In practice, Pixela works as a creative camera with its own flow: you select a menu sector on the OLED with the potentiometer, change parameters with short and long presses, capture on the spot, save everything to the SD card, and then manage the content through the web interface.

What Pixela does

1. Photo capture

Pixela captures photos in two main flows:

• Normal: saves the camera's native JPEG.
• Pixel Art: captures a base image, processes it in RGB, applies palette, block size, and dither, and saves a stylized final JPEG.

File names are automatically organized with sequence number, mode, vibe, and dither. In quest shots, the quest name is also included in the file name.

2. Vibes, palettes, and visual style

Pixela's style system works with:

• RANDOM ALL
• RANDOM FAVS
• NORMAL when that mode is enabled
• palettes visible in the Vibes menu

Each palette can have:

• name
• color list
• its own brightness adjustment
• its own contrast adjustment