This isn’t strictly Pi-related, but should be interesting to you anyway, especially MK Jammers. James Pegrum is exploring the elite codebreaking facility Bletchley Park by using LEGO to create scenes of massive computers and workers rushing about. He’s been doing…
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Easy timelapse with the #RaspberryPi camera module
The Raspberry Pi camera module has built-in timelapse functionality. Here’s a command to try: raspistill -o timelapse%04d.jpg -t 5000 -tl 1000 This will make a time lapse run for 5 seconds (5000 milliseconds), taking a picture every 1 second (1000…
#RaspberryPi Camera Module documentation
This is an aide-memoire for me but others may find it useful. An RTF document containing the Raspberry Pi camera module documentation is available here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2434217/pi/RaspiCamDocs-1.rtf
ScorPi – pose-able arm for the #RaspberryPi camera module
As part of their Sweetbox II Kickstarter, France-based Grasping Hand are offering the “ScorPi” which is a pose-able arm for the Raspberry Pi camera module. It plugs in to the composite video port and then attaches to the camera via…
Convert #RaspberryPi camera module output to MP4 or FLV
Once the camera module has captured video, you are left with an raw H264 file. Now, some players can already play this but what you really want to do is convert it to a common format like MP4. (This is…
The Gadget Show covers the #RaspberryPi camera
UK Channel 5’s Gadget Show (beloved amongst geeks of all sorts) has covered the launch of the Pi camera on their site. Does this mean that we’ll be getting more Raspberry Pi TV coverage? Who knows! Read their coverage here
RasPi.tv announces RasP.iO add-on board for #RaspberryPi
Alex Eames, over at RasPi.tv has been celebrating a year of having a Raspberry Pi and blogging about it. Amongst his look back over the year, he has announced what sounds like a really exciting project. He is developing a…
Liquid Nitrogen-cooled #RaspberryPi
Slava Maslennikov & Innokenty Maslennikov over at linkxs.org have been experimenting with cooling a Raspberry Pi by submerging it in liquid nitrogen. Absolutely nuts, but an interesting experiment as it showed that the Pi might be capable of running in temperatures…
DesignSpark does time-lapse photography with the #RaspberryPi Camera
DesignSpark have released a tutorial and video of an impressive timelapse of changeable weather. Taking a picture every 10 seconds (approx) they’ve stitched it together with mencoder (much like I did weeks ago) to produce a high-res video. Read the…
Streaming live with the #RaspberryPi camera module to Bambuser
With the release of the camera module to a wider audience, I thought I’d share some of things I’ve learnt. To start off, here’s some information about using the camera with Bambuser.com. This is in part taken from Marcus Olsson’s…