DesignSpark user Nye Thompson was invited to create a piece of artwork to be displayed at the Canal Museum in London. She took the Pi, added a camera module and a projector and created the installation, called SLURP!, so that…
Category: Camera module
Nwazet Raspberry Pi B+ camera box bundle – Review
I was sent one of these by Nwazet but I’m free to say what I like about it. UPDATE: Nwazet has gone out of business but you can still pick one of these up from ModMyPi. The Nwazet Raspberry Pi…
Line following robot does it’s work with the Raspberry Pi camera
17-year-old student Arne Baeyens has taken a Pi, a camera module and a controller board and built a line-follower robot. He took part in the RoboCup Junior competition in May with the robot and came third. He has done a,…
Live streaming the Raspberry Pi camera to a Windows PC
Brynlea Gibson has done a comprehensive video tutorial on getting video streaming working with a piece of software called gstreamer. It’s been a while since I’ve showcased a tutorial on this subject and some of them have become out-of-date, so…
Focusing the Raspberry Pi camera without breaking it
Thanks to RasPi.Today for spotting this one Although the Raspberry Pi Foundation has covered this topic here, George Wang has created a video with what is arguably a better way of doing the same job of focusing the lens on…
Multi-directional cameras with the IVPort for Raspberry Pi
Here’s an interesting board for the Pi. It allows you to connect two cameras (or 4 if you stack two boards) to the Pi and then switch between them. I can imagine this being used for security camera applications where…
Interview with creator of #RaspberryPi full-body scanner
Richard Garsthagen took 40 Raspberry Pis, fitted them all with camera modules and then placed them in a circle. He then wrote a networked script to simultaneously take a picture of a static object, thus creating a device which can…
Using a pair of reading glasses to focus the #RaspberryPi camera
Joonas Pihlajamaa has got hold of the two Pi camera modules – the normal one and the NoIR. He’s been experimenting with taking photos of close-up objects and has found the best way is to use reading glasses, as hinted at…
Build an action camera with a #RaspberryPi and Java
Franco Raimondi wanted to explore the possibilities of the Pi’s GPIO pins through Java. To make it a more ‘fun’ project, he decided to build a GoPro-alike action camera that he could attach to his cycle helmet. He uses the…
Build a wildlife camera with your #RaspberryPi
Porchester Junior School has written up their wildlife camera project. It’s a full account and tutorial on how to do it yourself, including installing, modifying and using ‘motion’ to capture video. Read their PDF here.