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…
Category: Photography
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…
First demo of motor control for #RaspberryPi camera platform / @Raspberry_Pi
I decided this morning to shoot a video of my progress so far on the SpacePi, which is intended to be a motorised platform for taking astronomical photographs using the Raspberry Pi with the official camera module. Here are the…
#RaspberryPi in the Sky – Where is it now?
PIE5, Dave Akerman’s latest high altitude balloon with a Raspberry Pi Model A payload, was launched on Saturday morning in rural Cambridgeshire with the aid of his usual team and special guests Eben and Liz Upton from the Raspberry Pi Foundation. Dozens…
Fifth #RaspberryPi balloon launch with Dave Akerman this Saturday
On Saturday morning, Dave Akerman will be launching PIE5 – a model A Raspberry Pi hanging from a weather balloon. These are great events as you can follow them online. This balloon is planned to travel across Europe and take…
Create a face-recognition magic mirror with a #RaspberryPi
Pierre Raufast has created a ‘magic mirror’ that will recognise you and respond accordingly. The Foundation asked him if he had documentation. He didn’t but then spent some time doing so. Read all about it on his blog
#RaspberryPi camera module time lapse
I found a way to join all the snapshots from the camera module together to create this video. I used the following command to do it: mencoder “mf://*.jpg” -mf fps=10 -o test.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=msmpeg4v2:vbitrate=800
#RaspberryPi Shotter – webcam timelapse
Daniele Nicassio has done a great tutorial on using a webcam to automatically take photos every 10 seconds and then create a timelapse video out of the images, all on the Raspberry Pi. The great news for me is that…
#RaspberryPi parking camera with distance sensor / @Raspberry_Pi
Jeremy Blythe has been busy building a parking sensor/camera with distance warning out of a Raspberry Pi, Sharp distance sensor, 2.2″ LCD screen and a Microsoft Lifecam Cinema camera. He has blogged about it and included all the code necessary…
Dave Akerman creates new lightweight #RaspberryPi balloon payload
Dave, who also has a pre-release camera module, has been busy building the next payload for his Raspberry Pi balloon flights. His previous Pi was given as a gift to Eben Upton of the Foundation just recently and Dave is…