Blogger “DashOne” has combined a Raspberry Pi, a camera module and a telescope to take photographs and videos of the Moon and Saturn. Brilliant stuff – beat me to it! Read more here
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Motion detection with the #RaspberryPi camera and Python
Foundation forum member ‘brainflakes‘ has managed to write a Python script to take and analyse images from the Raspberry Pi camera module in order to detect movement. He explains what it does on the forum: While watching for motion it…
A #RaspberryPi camera case that looks like a camera!
Pete Taylor has done an excellent job converting a retro-looking Holga camera into a case for this Raspberry Pi and camera module. Read more and see more pics on his blog
Live HLS streaming with the #RaspberryPi
Andy Armstrong has released his code for HLS streaming with the camera module. See the GitHub repository for details
Using the #RaspberryPi camera with OpenCV
Pierre has blogged about getting OpenCV to work with the Raspberry Pi camera module. Read how to do it here
Monitor your internet connection with a #RaspberryPi
Bernhard Suter has worked out a way to monitor the reliability of his internet connection using something called SmokePing. He’s documented it, including all the config files on his blog. Read the blog post here
Doing close-ups with the #RaspberryPi camera
Alex Eames has been doing some investigations into various options for doing close-ups with lenses etc. Read more here
Using Scratch to control #RaspberryPi GPIO remotely
Simon Walters (Cymplecy) has worked out how to control Scratch, running on the Raspberry Pi, from Scratch running on another computer. It requires a broadcast-listen set-up and he has documented the procedure on his blog. Read how to do it here
Audio Amplifier with the #RaspberryPi
Jason Birch has posted a tutorial with circuit diagram for an audio amplifier powered by a Raspberry Pi. Read more here
CustomPC magazine features #RaspberryPi this month
As you can see from the cover, this month’s CustomPC magazine features the Raspberry Pi. It has articles on turning the Pi into a NAS box and also about 3D printing a case for the Pi.