Note: This is very long… Grab a coffee. It took a while to write! Around 50 Raspberry Pi enthusiasts descended on the Milton Road Science Park headquarters of Cambridge Consultants on Saturday for the 2nd 2013 Cambridge Raspberry Jam. I’d…
Category: Photography
The Register launches a high-altitude #RaspberryPi balloon
With the help of Dave Akerman, website The Register has successfully launched and recovered a payload from a high-altitude balloon. Reaching a height of 34,571m, there was also a Pi camera module onboard which returned some great images. Read more…
Sixth Formers launch a #RaspberryPi High Altitude Balloon
Three Cumbria-based sixth form students launched a high-altitude balloon payload on the 28th June. The onboard flight computer was a Raspberry Pi. The Foundation have added a guest post to their blog from one of the team. Read the article here
Another sunset timelapse with the #RaspberryPi
Craig over at Chicago Electronic Distributors has attached his Raspberry Pi to a tree in order to capture a timelapse of sunset over a part of Lake Michigan. The results are beautiful. Read about the rig here
Macro Photography with the #RaspberryPi camera
Another blog post from Raspberry Pi Spy this morning. Matt’s been indulging his son’s interest in insects by using a macro lens with the PiCam to take photographs of a fly and a moth. The results are outstanding considering the price…
Point & Shoot Camera with the #RaspberryPi
Following on from Alex Eames’ great work on a Picam-powered point-and-shoot video camera, here’s another one. James Wolf has created a lovely camera with a nice chunky button and a cute GPIO breakout board. Read more about how James did…
Quick time-lapse of sunset from a #RaspberryPi camera
Ben Nuttall has created this really gorgeous time-lapse of sunset over the new Co-op building in Manchester. Photos were taken with the Raspberry Pi camera module, then strung together into the video.
Dave Akerman wins the Farnell/Element 14 #RaspberryPi camera competition
Dave Akerman, who launches high-altitude balloons as a hobby, has won the Farnell/Element 14 photography competition, voted on by the public. His photograph, a brilliant image of Devon and Cornwall taken at a height of almost 39km, stunned the Raspberry…
#RaspberryPi camera gets an away day in Bristol
Matt at Raspberry Pi Spy has taken his PiCam out into the wild to photograph Bristol and, in particular, the collection of Gromit Unleashed. The results are just fantastic proving that the PiCam is a high quality piece of kit. Read…
Lenses for the #RaspberryPi camera module
Matt Hawkins at Raspberry Pi Spy has been looking for cheap lenses to put over the front of the Raspberry Pi’s official camera module, or Picam as it’s starting to be known. He’s come up trumps with an eBay lot…