Charmed Labs, the team behind the well-known Pixy camera, have launched a new Kickstarter campaign for “the Vizy”. The Vizy, which is powered by a Raspberry Pi 4 (of various memory sizes), takes photographs with a 12 megapixel camera and…
Sam Zeloof, who is currently studying electrical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University as an undergraduate has taken an old Polaroid camera and retro-fitted it with a Raspberry Pi W, a camera module and a thermal printer. He added two LiPo…
David Pride has taken his Panasonic Lumix DSLR camera and a Raspberry Pi and created a little bit of magic. He’s adapted (read: taken apart and hacked with a soldering iron!) a quick release mechanism for the DSLR and wired…
by David Booth, Hitchin Hackspace Overview I’ve been loaned a new Raspberry Pi High Quality (HQ) camera with both the 6mm wide-angle lens and the 16mm telephoto lens by a very generous benefactor. It was so I could create an…
Mike Darby, over at 314Reactor, has carried out an impressive make by re-creating the E.D.I.T.H. glasses from Spider-man Far From Home. If you haven’t seen Avengers: Endgame or Far From Home yet, stop reading and get thee to your nearest…
China-based electronics manufacturer DFRobot has just launched a new Kickstarter to fund the HuskyLens, an A.I.-enhanced camera module. Built into the camera circuit is a Kendryte K210 chip, a 400MHz dual core RISC-V 64bit processor which facilitates the following algorithms:…
This is a lovely idea, really well executed. Using a variety of techniques, a team has developed the Expression Flower that senses when it is being smiled at and then opens up to smile back at you. Powered by a…
Dan Macnish has taken a Raspberry Pi 3, a camera module and a thermal printer and created a set-up that ‘approximates’ what the camera sees and then prints it out. It’s sort of like a rubbish Polaroid, but it’s more…
Christian Haschek from Austria has developed a system to identify illegally uploaded pornographic images. Following the upload of a child sexual abuse image to his image hosting platform, Pictshare, Haschek naturally contacted the police who told him to print it…
Martin O’Hanlon, who recently joined Raspberry Pi as a Content and Curriculum Manager, has been playing around with the PiCamera library in conjunction with guizero which helps you to create simple user interfaces. He has created an app that runs on…
