Adafruit’s posted a fantastic tutorial on using the Pi and a PiTFT touchscreen to create a full touchscreen camera. As they admit, it’s unlikely to replace your ‘proper’ camera or even your smartphone, but it’s a great project to do…
Category: Camera module
Web app opens up #RaspberryPi camera controls
Zoe has written a piece on silvermelchoir’s app that allows you to control your Raspberry Pi camera module through a browser. It includes video and photo taking and also video streaming in the browser. Read it here
Pure Python library for the #RaspberryPi camera reaches maturity
Dave Jones has been working on picamera, a pure Python library to allow you to interface with your Raspberry Pi camera module. Ben Nuttall has posted over on the Raspberry Pi website that the library has continued to be developed…
Create your own animation studio with a #RaspberryPi – brilliant blog post!
This is an outstanding piece of work by Trevor Appleton. He has converted his Raspberry Pi into an animation studio by writing a piece of software (with a GUI) to take pictures with the camera module and then to string…
#RaspberryPi camera with timelapse functionality
Articles from Jason Birch don’t come along that often but when they do they’re always worth reading. This time, he’s created a camera with a screen and buttons to take pictures & video and do time lapse photography. Read more…
Stream from your #RaspberryPi camera module using mjpg_streamer
After many hours trying to get streaming working with the PiCam, I found this solution on Miguel Grinberg’s blog. It uses mjpg_streamer to stream stills from the camera. You basically set up your camera to write single pictures to /tmp…
Bullet time effect with 48 #RaspberryPi and cameras
The team at PiFace Digital created a rig of 48 Pis, complete with camera modules and PiFace boards, put them into a circle and created the Frozen Pi – a bullet time photographic system. The Pis are triggered at the…
Timelapse photography with the #RaspberryPi, Python and avconv
Trevor Appleton has done a very good, comprehensive tutorial on using a combination of Python and avconv to take photos with the camera module and then string them together as a video. Read the tutorial here
3D scanner made up of 40 #RaspberryPi boards and cameras
Richard has developed a 3D scanner using the Pi and the camera module… actually, 39 of them! He’s created an Instructable and also set-up a website specifically for the project. He recently took it to the Maker Faire in Groningen, Netherlands…
Disguise detection with a #RaspberryPi and Arduino
Dr Neil Yager of AICBT Ltd and Dr Ted Dunstone of Biometix have joined forces to create the beginnings of a facial recognition security system that can detect usage of a variety of masks. They use the Pi, the Pi…