Freddy Kilo has built himself a tracked robot onto which he has mounted two Raspberry Pis. Each Pi is equipped with a camera module which are mounted side-by-side at the front of the vehicle. The video output is streamed via U4VL.…
Category: Camera module
The Pi Podcast – new episode out, covering new camera, Pi Wars, other Raspberry Pi news
This time, the guys give their views on the new Pi camera, an IKEA Lack table retro gaming console, Pi Wars 2017 (about which, more later I hope!) and various other pieces of news. They also interview OKtoshi about his…
Raspberry Pi magazine The MagPi – issue 45 out now
Thursday saw the publication of the newest issue of the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s magazine The MagPi. This month there is a special feature on the new Raspberry Pi camera module as well as lots of articles from the community. It’s especially nice…
Comparison of the Raspberry Pi camera modules
As you probably know, two new camera modules have just been released by the Raspberry Pi Foundation. Alex Eames has carried out a comparison of the old versions and the new versions and has written up his (surprising) findings. Take…
Infra-red baby monitor using the Raspberry Pi 3 and PiNoIR camera
Aaron Davies has posted his project up on the Element 14 website. In it, he creates a baby monitor using the a Raspberry Pi 3, a new Pi NoIR v2 camera module and some infra-red LEDs. He uses some software…
New cameras released for the Raspberry Pi – 8 megapixels!
This morning, two new cameras for the Raspberry Pi were released. These cameras, which are direct drop-in replacements for the old ones (i.e. they have the same ribbon cable connector) feature new Sony IMX219 sensors. They still have fixed-focus lenses, but…
Find a car parking space with the Raspberry Pi
Humphrey Shotton and Nicholas Sanders identified that one of the causes of pollution in cities is that hundreds, possibly thousands, of cars routinely search for a parking space during morning rush hour. To help with this, they’ve developed a system which…
Photographing the moon with the Raspberry Pi camera module & 3D printing
James Mitchell, who runs the Berlin Raspberry Jam, decided that he wanted to indulge his obsession of photographing the moon. So, he took a Pi Camera Module, removed the lens and attached it to a 3D printed mount onto which he…
Getting started with Picamera on the Raspberry Pi
Ben Nuttall has just published a new ‘Learn’ resource on the Raspberry Pi website. This new resource takes you through using the Picamera Python library to do the following: How to connect the camera module to the Raspberry Pi How to…
Sweaty Astronauts – the Raspberry Pi AstroPi data comes back to Earth
Richard Hayler and his children spoke at the Big Birthday Weekend about their AstroPi project – how it was developed and the story of how their code ended up in Space! Their experiment, which uses the SenseHAT’s built-in humidity sensor to…