Martin Mander recently noticed that his back garden attracted bats. Inspired by this, he set about creating a camera that could see in the dark and take pictures of the bats as they came flying in. He repurposed a hand-held…
Category: Camera module
Build a wearable time-lapse camera with a Raspberry Pi Zero
Adafruit has published a tutorial on creating a time-lapse camera using a Pi Zero, a camera module, a bit of power circuitry, a micro button and a 3D-printed case. Lovely project if you’ve got the 3D printing capability. Take a…
Strapping on a Raspberry Pi Zero to a drone!
Finnian Anderson and his friend Ben James took Ben’s 250-class racing drone out for a spin. Before they did this, however, they used a lot of electrical tape to attach a Pi Zero and camera module. A little bit of start-up magic…
New Foundation resource helps you render selfies in Minecraft on a Raspberry Pi
There are some great resources over at the Foundation and a new one has just been added. This one uses the Pi camera to take a ‘selfie’ and then converts the RGB data into Minecraft blocks. If any of them…
360 degree panorama camera using 10 Raspberry Pis!
James Mitchell loves photography. In fact, recently he took pictures of the moon with a Raspberry Pi – you can see the results here. Now, he has moved on to taking photographs of 360 degree panoramas. To do this, he’s used…
New products from The Pi Hut and Average Man for the Raspberry Pi
Today sees the release of two brand new products, available exclusively from The Pi Hut and designed by Richard Saville (aka the Average Man). The first is a very pretty new motor driver board called MotoZero. It allows you to control four…
Bare bones Raspberry Pi operating system for NatureBytes camera system
Recently, NatureBytes have managed to fulfil their Kickstarter rewards. This means a lot of units (like the one pictured below) in the hands of users. The system comes with a Raspberry Pi A+ and, because of the lower-spec nature of…
High Altitude Balloon flight with the new Raspberry Pi Zero and camera module
When the original Zero came out, high altitude balloonist Dave Akerman said to Eben Upton that he’d love to see a new revision with a camera port, as that would make it ideal for ballooning and taking photographs of the…
New Raspberry Pi Zero out today – with camera support!
The Raspberry Pi Zero has been notoriously difficult to get hold of. Today, new stocks have arrived and they contain a new feature that will be sure to get people excited. That new feature is a camera port: It enables the…
Create an instant camera with a thermal printer and a Raspberry Pi
Phillip Burgess has developed an instant camera using a Raspberry Pi, with camera module, plus a mini thermal printer from Adafruit (if you’re in the UK, take a look for the same product at Makersify). It looks like a nice…