Richard (Average Man) has written a really nice tutorial about using a small 8×2 LCD display with the Pi, using his ProtoCam prototyping board. This is a really great use of the ProtoCam (which is now fully funded on Kickstarter) which…
Category: Camera module
Stream video from your Raspberry Pi camera module
I know I’ve covered streaming before, but this is just a reminder to myself that the best method I’ve found is using Silvan Melchoir’s RaspiMJPEG which he has combined with a web interface (pictured). All the instructions are available on the Raspberry…
ProtoCam – hands-on with a prototyping board for the Raspberry Pi camera
Introduction Richard Saville, also known as the Average Man, is currently running a Kickstarter campaign to fund the ProtoCam. The ProtoCam is a prototyping board onto which you can attach your Raspberry Pi camera module and then build whatever circuit you want…
Front-mounted Raspberry Pi camera with prototyping area
Richard, aka The Average Man, is currently running a Kickstarter campaign for a camera mount with a prototyping area called ProtoCam. He has now blogged about an alternative use for the product – as a camera mount for a robot. It’s…
Sheffield telescope uses the Raspberry Pi camera module
A company, Alternative-Photonics, supported by researchers at the University of Sheffield’s Institute of Physics, has built a telescope, primarily out of 3D-printed parts, and used the Raspberry Pi camera module to take pictures through the lens. There’s been a bit of over-enthusiastic news…
Raspberry Pi facial recognition treasure safe
Tony DiCola from Adafruit and David Scheltma from Make have written a comprehensive tutorial on creating a safe which will open when it recognises your face. You can read all about it over on the Make site.
Build a camera module project with this new Raspberry Pi prototyping board
Richard Saville, aka The Average Man, has just launched his first Kickstarter campaign. The ProtoCam is a prototyping board that plugs into the Pi’s GPIO pins and has a mounting space for the camera module. There are loads of different…
Turn your Raspberry Pi into a security camera
The Average Man has used a distro image called MotionPie and a Nwazet Pi/camera case to create a security camera set-up for his father. It’s a rather neat solution to a common security problem. Read how he did it here.
Interview with Raspberry Pi PiCamera library author
Les Pounder went to the Raspberry Jamboree in Manchester earlier this year and interviewed Dave Jones. Dave is the author of the PiCamera Python library for the Pi. You can read the interview here.
Motion detection with the Raspberry Pi camera
Rob Zwetsloot over at Linux User has done a nice tutorial with code listing that shows you how to do motion detection with the camera module. It takes a picture, stores it in a stream and then captures another image,…