Pierre has blogged about getting OpenCV to work with the Raspberry Pi camera module. Read how to do it here
Category: Camera module
Doing close-ups with the #RaspberryPi camera
Alex Eames has been doing some investigations into various options for doing close-ups with lenses etc. Read more here
Convert #RaspberryPi camera .h264 to .mp4
Alex Eames has documented a piece of info from Matthew Manning’s video about using MP4Box to convert the raw H264 output of the camera to an MP4 format. Read more here
#RaspberryPi advanced camera features
Matthew Manning, who I met on Saturday, from Raspberry Pi IV Beginners, has done a great video that takes you through step-by-step how to do some fairly advanced things with the camera module. This includes streaming and timelapse.
#RaspberryPi camera module command generator
Raspberry Pi Foundation forum member Nu7s has created a web-page that will generate the command line command to make the camera do whatever you want it to. Try it out here
#RaspberryPi camera lifts off onboard a quadcopter
JBAnovling has published a video of his Quadcopter. It has a Raspberry Pi at it’s core and the video shows a comparison of using the camera module and a keychain camera. Great stuff!
Stream video from your #RaspberryPi camera to your Android device
Alex has written another of his excellent tutorials. This time he covers streaming the camera output to a Nexus 7. This method also works for the Samsung Galaxy Note II (and, I’d imagine, any recent Android device that’s capable of…
Stream the #RaspberryPi camera module through your browser
Using a combination of the things I’ve learned up to now and a little help from others on the internet, I’ve worked out how to embed video from the Raspberry Pi camera module inside a web-page. There are two methods…
Stream the #RaspberryPi camera module to VLC media player
Leo White, on the Foundation forum, has provided the answer to a question I asked about streaming from the Pi camera to VLC. There are two alternatives. One is over http, the other uses the rstp protocol. Here’s the HTTP…
Disabling the #RaspberryPi camera module’s red LED
Matt over at Raspberry Pi Spy has described how to disable the LED on the camera module. This is particularly useful for me as I often take pictures through windows and the light reflects off the glass. Read about the…