Evghenii has developed a system that automates the process of recognising cars and opening gates based on who they are. The system, which uses a Raspberry Pi, an IP camera and some relays plus a mixture of Python (including OpenCV),…
Jamie from The Pi Hut has been in touch about some new products he’s launched today and I thought I’d pass the info on. Colour-coded GPIO header First up, we have a colour-coded GPIO 40-pin header for the Raspberry Pi Zero.…
Wayne Keenan wanted to build a hyper-slim camcorder. So, he took a Raspberry Pi Zero W, a HyperPixel screen, a small camera from Pimoroni, a LiPo battery and some other components, soldered and stuck them together and, voila, a tiny camera!…
Alex Ellis decided to grow some cress and he wanted a way of monitoring the growth. To do this, he used a Raspberry Pi Zero, a Pi camera and a cheap plastic box to grow the cress in. The Pi…
Here’s an interesting article from The MagPi. A Swedish team has developed a system to record and stream the activity and experiences of a person via the Internet. Called Tele 2, the system is worn as a back-pack and headset…
Texas-based Computer Scientist Estefannie has rigged up a GoPro camera to take photographs of herself. The GoPro cable is fed into a backpack which houses a Raspberry Pi 3. The Pi has a GPS board connected to it and calculates the…
Packt Publishing is always offering free e-books and today is great if you want to learn about image processing. You will use the OpenCV library with Python with today’s book. Here is the book blurb: OpenCV is an open source computer…
Matt, over at Raspberry Pi Spy, has written a great tutorial that shows you how to set-up your Raspberry Pi with the motionEyeOS operating system. It lets you create yourself a CCTV camera that works over IP on your network.…
Dr. Bailey Shen and Dr. Shizuo Mukai from the USA have developed a prototype camera unit that can be used by opticians to take photos of your retina. Normally, pupil-dilating eyedrops are required to do this, causing blurriness and headaches afterwards.…
The Foundation have recently published a new tutorial which helps you to create your very own touchscreen photo booth which will tweet the photos. Dubbed “The All-Seeing Pi”, the contraption requires you to use the Raspberry Pi camera module, a…
