I decided this morning to shoot a video of my progress so far on the SpacePi, which is intended to be a motorised platform for taking astronomical photographs using the Raspberry Pi with the official camera module. Here are the…
Category: Camera module
#RaspberryPi in the Sky – Where is it now?
PIE5, Dave Akerman’s latest high altitude balloon with a Raspberry Pi Model A payload, was launched on Saturday morning in rural Cambridgeshire with the aid of his usual team and special guests Eben and Liz Upton from the Raspberry Pi Foundation. Dozens…
USB battery pack experiments with the #RaspberryPi
With my Raspberry Pi camera project, it’s vital that the Pi is portable and untethered to mains electricity. So, I researched various ways of powering the Pi from battery. This ranged from using LiPo batteries, through AA batteries and finally…
New (longer) timelapse video from #RaspberryPi camera module stills
Not a particularly interesting timelapse, it has to be said, but an interesting snatch of life from Potton in Bedfordshire.
Controlling servo motors on the #RaspberryPi
As part of my “SpacePi” Raspberry Pi astronomy project, I want to be able to control the orientation of the camera module remotely. I want to be able to sit away from the camera rig and control where it is…
#RaspberryPi camera module time lapse
I found a way to join all the snapshots from the camera module together to create this video. I used the following command to do it: mencoder “mf://*.jpg” -mf fps=10 -o test.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=msmpeg4v2:vbitrate=800
Dave Akerman creates new lightweight #RaspberryPi balloon payload
Dave, who also has a pre-release camera module, has been busy building the next payload for his Raspberry Pi balloon flights. His previous Pi was given as a gift to Eben Upton of the Foundation just recently and Dave is…
First encoded video from my #RaspberryPi camera module / @Raspberry_Pi
After much messing around with both ffmpeg and avconv, I’ve finally found a combination that works to convert a raw H264 recording from the camera module to something usable. I converted it to an Ogg-format video. That means that it should…
Full-size daylight image from #RaspberryPi camera module
By request, here’s a full-size image from the Raspberry Pi camera module taken at 6:33am on 21st March 2013. Click for full version.
Long exposure image from the #RaspberryPi camera module & future plans
This is just a quick post to share with you an image taken with the camera module on ‘night’ exposure mode. Bear in mind this was taken just before 5.30am in the UK so the night sky was already lightening…