Justin Platz and Kevin Gleason from PubNub have published a tutorial that uses the Raspberry Pi camera module to take pictures and then upload them to online service Parse. The program hooks into a PIR sensor to detect movement then…
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Naturebytes Wildlife Camera kit – watch wildlife with the Raspberry Pi
This is a nicely thought-out Kickstarter which puts the Raspberry Pi Camera Module to good use to capture pictures of wildlife. The unit comes in a weatherproof case with holes in the front for the camera lens and a PIR…
Raspberry Pi powered ID photos with this booth
Roo Williams was tasked with improving on a company’s method of taking ID photographs. What he came up with was a Raspberry Pi with a camera module which talked via a Flash web interface to the subject’s mobile phone. He…
Raspberry Pi security camera using a RasPiO Duino
Alex Eames has been busy experimenting with a way to replace an old low-res security camera at his house in Poland. He’s come up with a Pi-controlled, servo-positioned camera that will accept commands over Twitter. The core of the project is…
Aerial photography from a kite with a Raspberry Pi
Richard Hayler (who has previously done very many cool things with a Pi) has developed his own “kite mapping” rig using a Raspberry Pi. He’s taken a model A+, a camera module, an Xtrinsic Sensor board and a ProtoCam prototyping board, meshed…
Automated waste sorter uses a Raspberry Pi
Harrison Bradley, Jeff Bertel and Marc Welsh studied on the Advanced Mechatronics course at Georgia Tech. They’ve created an apparatus which takes in a piece of waste and then automatically sorts it depending on what the object is identified as: cans…
Selfie camera with a Raspberry Pi and a Pipsta printer
Spencer Organ has blogged about his new project: a selfie camera with automatic printing facility. He’s used a Raspberry Pi camera module and a Pipsta printer to do it. He’s published the 14-line piece of code over on his blog, so…
Fridge with a Raspberry Pi automatically orders fruit for you
American Steve Hickson has done an excellent home automation proof-of-concept. He’s placed a Raspberry Pi and camera module inside his fridge (and made sure that the light stayed on). The Pi takes a picture, analyses it and identifies whether there…
Camera beacon with solar panels and a Raspberry Pi
Instructables user hackbp has written a tutorial which shows you how to transmit an image over radio waves. He uses a method known as SSTV Martin 2 to convert an image into ‘lines’ which are then sent in binary form over…
Lisiparoi Raspberry Pi camera light – Review
Lisiparoi creator Jason Barnett was kind enough to send me one to review, so here goes… Introduction The Lisiparoi is, simply, a light for your Raspberry Pi camera module. It comes in two flavours: the white Lisiparoi is for the normal…