Matt over at Raspberry Pi Spy has created this diagram showing the main dimensions of the camera module. He used a pair of plastic calipers so the measurements should be accurate enough for most uses. A PDF of the diagram…
Category: Camera module
A standalone camcorder with a #RaspberryPi and the camera module
Alex Eames, from RasPi.TV, has been working with the new camera module for the Raspberry Pi and has created a portable Pi-and-camera unit accessible via a bluetooth enabled mobile device. Read more here and watch his video
Streaming from the #RaspberryPi to Windows 7 64-bit
After trying the instructions here to use netcat and mplayer to stream from the Raspberry Pi camera module to Windows, I found that although the cache filled on the Windows machine, indicating that data was being received, mplayer never launched. I…
RasPi.TV does the #RaspberryPi camera module
Alex Eames has done an excellent tutorial on capturing video with the Raspberry Pi camera module and converting it into an MP4 file suitable for video editing with Pinnacle or other video editing software. Head on over to RasPi.TV to…
Flashing lines on the #RaspberryPi camera?
If your video recording from the camera module has any kind of flashing on it, try the following: raspivid -fps 25 – o video.h264 This will set the frames-per-second to 25. The flashing is caused by the frequency of artificial…
#RaspberryPi camera module – excellent beginners’ video
Matthew Manning at Raspberry Pi IV Beginners has done an excellent set-up video for the camera module which takes you through the insertion of the cable through to taking video and pictures with it.
Installing avconv on the #RaspberryPi
Some of you with the camera may have been trying to install avconv by using the following: sudo apt-get install avconv As you have probably discovered, this does not work and it reports that it cannot find the package. (I…
Easy timelapse with the #RaspberryPi camera module
The Raspberry Pi camera module has built-in timelapse functionality. Here’s a command to try: raspistill -o timelapse%04d.jpg -t 5000 -tl 1000 This will make a time lapse run for 5 seconds (5000 milliseconds), taking a picture every 1 second (1000…
#RaspberryPi Camera Module documentation
This is an aide-memoire for me but others may find it useful. An RTF document containing the Raspberry Pi camera module documentation is available here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2434217/pi/RaspiCamDocs-1.rtf
ScorPi – pose-able arm for the #RaspberryPi camera module
As part of their Sweetbox II Kickstarter, France-based Grasping Hand are offering the “ScorPi” which is a pose-able arm for the Raspberry Pi camera module. It plugs in to the composite video port and then attaches to the camera via…