Here’s a quick one. Someone’s figured out how to use gstreamer to stream to an Android phone running a custom app. They’ve only got it working using a USB camera at the moment, but I’d imagine it would be quite…
Category: Camera module
Vocal intruder warning system now takes pictures with the #RaspberryPi
Vincent Willcox previously posted about his motion-detecting, noise-making intruder warning system. He’s now added a camera module to the project and it takes a picture of the intruder. He’s used the picamera Python library to do this and it’s a…
New camera mode announced for the #RaspberryPi camera module
James Hughes, the author of the camera module software (raspistill and raspivid) has just announced, via the Foundation’s blog, that there are several new modes available for the camera: 2592×1944 1-15fps, video or stills mode, Full sensor full FOV, default…
Make a portable camera with your #RaspberryPi and a lot of DIY know-how
This project isn’t for the faint-hearted. It’s from Adafruit and needs a lot of tinkering and crafting to get a polished end result. It uses the Pi and the PiCam and some laser cut parts to construct a very neat…
Night time wildlife camera with the #RaspberryPi and the PiNoIR
Paul Brown has taken his Pi, hooked up a PIR motion sensor and plugged in a PiNoIR camera. He’s waterproofed it for use outside and then run some tests to detect movement in his house at night (don’t worry –…
Overlay text and graphics on a #RaspberryPi PiCam photo and tweet it!
Alex Eames, at RasPi.TV, has been very busy recently posting a series of blog posts about using Tweepy on the Pi to send tweets. He has previously covered tweeting an image from a PiCam and now he’s moved on to…
Safety Attention Monitor uses a #RaspberryPi for car safety
James Hobson and his team at Chico State University have created a device to monitor drivers and their facial movements to determine if they are looking at the road. They’ve used a Pi and camera module plus OpenCV to do…
Snowboarding with a #RaspberryPi GPS helmet camera
Martin O’Hanlon loves to snowboard and he’s figured out a way to record his travels using a helmet camera powered by a Raspberry Pi. Here he is in action: Read more about how he managed it over on his blog,…
Creating a photobooth with the #RaspberryPi camera and the Python API
Following on from Dave Jones’ excellent work on the Pi camera Python library, David Whale’s Raspberry Pi Saturday Club decided to use it to create a photobooth. They combined it with PyGame to do some text overlays and soon had…
RasPi.TV develops touchscreen version of #RaspberryPi camcorder
Alex Eames has been busy working out how to use a small touchscreen he got from someone on the Raspberry Pi Forum. He’s finally got it to display the feed from the camera module following their instructions. Read more here