Farnell/Element 14 have launched a photography competition to celebrate the launch of the Camera Module. Take a photo with your camera module to enter. Subjects can be one of the following: your workshop, your Pi project, pets and people or…
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Camera module – official announcement from #RaspberryPi Foundation
The Foundation have just officially announced the availability of the camera module from both RS Components and Farnell/Element 14. They’ve also written a healthy introduction to using it, including streaming from the camera to both Linux and Windows. Expect to see…
#RaspberryPi CPU Usage Monitoring With A BerryClip
Matt, over at Raspberry Pi Spy, has written a script to monitor CPU usage and then use the BerryClip add-on board to display the status. Read more here
#RaspberryPi Camera board setup
James Adams from the Foundation has shot a video in which he shows the unboxing and first connection of the camera module. Remember: this is available from Farnell tomorrow.
#RaspberryPi camera module availability date & price
Farnell are currently showing the future availability of the camera module at under 2000 units from…. the 27th May! Farnell have sent out an email to ‘Register your interest’ registrants saying the camera will be available to order from the…
Voice Command v2.0 for the #RaspberryPi
Steve Hickson has just released the second version of his voice command software in which you can issue voice commands to your Raspberry Pi and have configured actions happen in response. Read more here
Pi-Rex, a bark-activated door opener with the #RaspberryPi
David Hunt has created a mechanism that detects the noise of his dog barking and then opens the back door to allow her to go out for a comfort break. It involves a noise detection circuit, an actuator and a…
Two high-resolution images from the #RaspberryPi camera module
By popular demand, here are two uncompressed images from the camera module. Click ’em to see the large versions
High resolution time lapse from the official #RaspberryPi camera module
In response to a request on the Foundation forum, here’s a high-resolution (2592×1944) time-lapse video of a bird table type thing we have in our front garden on 12th May 2013 in changeable weather and lighting conditions. It’s not very…
RaspberryPi GPIO in C++
Hussam Al-Hertani over at hertaville.com has written an excellent tutorial, with code and breadboard diagram, on how to control the GPIO through C++. Read the tutorial here