Wellington, New Zealand resident Warren was asked to record the hatching of an endangered species: the tuatara. The tuatara is a reptile that is rapidly dying out thanks to some stowaway rats from the 17th Century. So, he used a PiNoIR…
Category: Photography
Time-lapse stargazing with the Raspberry Pi
Now this is something I’ve been wanting to try myself for ages. Jippo has created some software which captures images from the Raspberry Pi camera module in a time-lapse to enable you to get great night-time pictures of moving objects such…
Surveillance jacket controlled by Raspberry Pi
South Korean artists Shin Seung Back and Kim Yung Hun, together with costume designer Jehee Sheen, have created a jacket embedded with dozens of cameras which can be used to capture a 360-degree picture of the wearer’s environment. At the…
Hacking a Holga camera with a Raspberry Pi
Pete Taylor has been working on converting a Holga camera into a digital camera using a Raspberry Pi. He previously explained how he’d fitted in a model A to the case and he’s now blogged about his continuing hacks and…
Sheffield telescope uses the Raspberry Pi camera module
A company, Alternative-Photonics, supported by researchers at the University of Sheffield’s Institute of Physics, has built a telescope, primarily out of 3D-printed parts, and used the Raspberry Pi camera module to take pictures through the lens. There’s been a bit of over-enthusiastic news…
Raspberry Pi facial recognition treasure safe
Tony DiCola from Adafruit and David Scheltma from Make have written a comprehensive tutorial on creating a safe which will open when it recognises your face. You can read all about it over on the Make site.
Turn a Raspberry Pi PiTFT into a digital frame with a USB stick
Spencer Organ has taken a Pi, the PiTFT and a USB stick, merged them all together and created a small digital photo frame. This is a great use for the PiTFT (although it doesn’t use the touchscreen… yet) and I…
Winners of the Adafruit Raspberry Pi Photography Competition
Adafruit has announced the winners of the photography competition it held recently. First prize was won by Andrew Mulholland with the picture below It’s a great shot and shows just what you can do with the Pi if you put your…
Controlling a model train with JS on the Raspberry Pi
Jonathan Porta has written a client/server application using Node.js and Angular.js on the Pi to control a model train set. He strapped a GoPro to the roof of the train and has got some great footage (below). You can view the…
Playing card detection using a #RaspberryPi and OpenCV
R D Milligan has been looking at ways to use his Raspberry Pi and webcam to detect playing cards and build a ‘Poker bot’ and he’s now got it recognising some cards. It’s an interesting project and he’s provided all the…