The leader of the Purbeck STEM club took an Intel QX3 microscope toy and retro fitted it with a Raspberry Pi camera module. This required removing the lens from the module and then attaching it to the eye-piece of the QX3.…
Category: Camera module
PiCamera worksheets for the Raspberry Pi
Stephen Blythe has built on work done by Carl Monk to create some worksheets for the camera module. The worksheets use the picamera Python library and are very simple and easy-to-follow. Take a look here.
Remote control your Raspberry Pi using your phone
Robin Newman, who is normally to be found hacking with Sonic Pi, has turned his attention to an online service called Telegram. Using your mobile phone, you can send messages to Telegram which will send them to your Pi which…
Raspberry Pi robot with streaming video and a web remote control
Carl Monk’s been busy. He’s taken some components that he’s collected during his time working with the Pi and has come up with a robot that streams live video and allows you to control it over a mobile phone or tablet…
Motion detection with the Raspberry Pi camera
Clayton Lambert has written a nice Python script which takes a picture with the camera module and scans it for changed pixels, indicating motion. It uses the picamera library and I think it’s particularly good because you can see how it looks…
Live streaming Raspberry Pi dog camera
Ewa Karweta has taken a Raspberry Pi, a camera module and a bunch of components to provide power and put them into a dog back pack. He’s then kindly asked his pooch to wear it so that he can get a…
New camera prototyping board for the Raspberry Pi model B+/A+
Richard Saville, creator of the ProtoCam prototyping board, has just launched a new Kickstarter. His new board is for the + series of Raspberry Pi, with a 40-pin header, a slot for the camera module, power rails, plenty of space…
Control a telescope with Mathematica on the Raspberry Pi
Tom Sherlock from Wolfram Research has written an extensive guest post on the Raspberry Pi Foundation blog about his work which uses a Pi camera module to take astronomical photographs while the Pi itself controls the position of the telescope…
Push a button to take a picture and tweet it with the Raspberry Pi
Mike Haldas has written an excellent tutorial in which he builds a simple circuit with a push button and a couple of LEDs to trigger the camera module to take a photograph. The photograph is then auto-uploaded to Twitter. Read more…
Make your own Raspberry Pi trail camera
Over at NestBoxTech, they’re doing a series on building your own ‘trail camera’ with a Raspberry Pi. The trail cam is triggered by movement, which then results in a captured image. The whole thing uses the piCamera Python library. It’s…