Pete Taylor has extended his Holga camera project by using a script by Steven Kay to convert images into ASCII art. You can see Pete’s modified version of the script here.
Category: Camera module
Creating a Raspberry Pi video capture unit
Matt Hawkins has now reached 150 blog posts and to celebrate this, he’s written a three-part guide to creating a video capture unit using a Raspberry Pi, suitable for mounting to your dashboard or bike. You can read the first…
Raspberry Pi camera flash ring review
Spencer (Mr UK Tech Reviews) got sent a new ‘flash ring’ by Cyntech. It’s a mounting plate for the Raspberry Pi camera module that surrounds the lens with LEDs. He’s done a short review here.
Create a time lapse in Python with the Raspberry Pi
Normally if you want to do a timelapse with the Pi camera, you just use the raspistill command with the -tl parameter. However, Richard (aka the Average Man) wanted to do it programmatically so he could update an LCD screen…
Interview with BulletPi creator Andrew Robinson
Linux User & Developer have published their interview online with Andrew Robinson, who created a bullet-time rig by chaining together 48 Raspberry Pis and camera modules. Read it here.
Raspberry Pi time lapse photography captures endangered species hatching
Wellington, New Zealand resident Warren was asked to record the hatching of an endangered species: the tuatara. The tuatara is a reptile that is rapidly dying out thanks to some stowaway rats from the 17th Century. So, he used a PiNoIR…
Render photographs from the Raspberry Pi camera into Minecraft
Ferran Fabregas has worked out a way to take images and render them in Minecraft Pi Edition. He’s now extended that idea and created a Python script using picamera to take a photo and then send it into Minecraft. Brilliant…
Send security camera photos from the Raspberry Pi via MMS
Mike Haldas has written a great, comprehensive tutorial about using the Pi and online service Twilio to take photos using the Pi camera and send them to a recipient via MMS message. Take a look here.
Stereo depth perception with the Raspberry Pi Compute Module
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has posted a lovely explanation of a project carried out by Argon Design. They were given a Compute Module and development board and hooked up two camera modules to it. They then wrote an algorithm to…
Raspberry Pi Compute Module IO Board CAD files released
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has just announced the release of the CAD files for the Compute Module IO Board. Here’s what they say about the format that they’ve been released in: The design files are the Cadence OrCAD schematic file, Cadence…