Mat Kelcey set-up a bee hive and wondered if there was a way to count the number of bees in the hive. This, he reasoned, would give him a good indication of the health of the hive and some interesting…
Counting bees in a hive with a Raspberry Pi
Category: Photography
Polaroid camera gets a Raspberry Pi makeover with lots of innovation
A crafty maker called Mitxela has taken an old Polaroid camera and converted it to use a Raspberry Pi Zero and a thermal printer. The build itself is interesting and involved replacing the innards with the necessary circuitry for the…
Four Raspberry Pi Zeros with cameras that make up a 3D scanner
Jolar, from Oxford Hackspace, has come up with a great way of doing 3D scans that needn’t break the bank. He’s used four Raspberry Pi Zeros and 4 Pi cameras mounted to a triangular frame. Each camera is pointing at…
Clock in and clock out with this facial recognition system running on a Raspberry Pi
dekuNukem has created a great system for keeping track of how long you spend playing games working hard in front of your computer screen. He’s taken a Pi camera module, which is focused on the computer user and a Raspberry Pi…
Animal monitoring system uses a Raspberry Pi and Watson IoT
Andy Stanford-Clark from IBM has been helping Marwell Zoo in Hampshire to develop an Internet-of-Things monitoring and control device for animals. More specifically, he has been developing a system that monitors the sleeping area of certain animals in the Zoo and controls…
Portable trail camera uses a single power source and a Raspberry Pi
Gary has taken a Raspberry Pi 2, a Pi NoIR Camera and an Infrared LED light source and created a portable ‘trail camera’. A 12V power source provides the necessary juice for the LEDs and a PiBorg BattBorg steps the…
Converting old film reels to digital with a Raspberry Pi
Joe Herman has taken an old film projector, a Raspberry Pi, a camera module and a stepper motor and created a machine that will help to convert 8mm and 16mm film reels into a digital format. He had to re-focus…
Connected picture frame is an Internet of Things device running from a Raspberry Pi
Frederick Vandenbosch has taken a Raspberry Pi 3 and an Official Touch Screen and created a ‘connected picture frame’. The frame displays pictures which are periodically downloaded from Dropbox and allows the user to ‘like’ individual photos, thus indicating their…
Create animated GIFs on an ejectable cartridge using two Raspberry Pis!
Abhishek Singh has created this awesome GIF camera from two Raspberry Pis. Called the Instagif NextStep, a Pi 3 with a camera and preview screen records a short video clip and then transmits that clip to a Pi Zero which is…
OctoCam camera kit for the Raspberry Pi – review from the MagPi
The MagPi has published online Phil King’s review of Pimoroni’s OctoCam from issue 59. Read it here. The kit, which is a Pi Zero, camera and sticky mount is available from Pimoroni here.