Zheng Wang has taken a model Range Rover and slapped a Raspberry Pi and camera module on top, along with a portable power supply. His aims were to build a system that would self-drive along a track detect stop signs and traffic…
Category: Camera module
Raspberry Pi powered video binoculars
Josh Williams has taken a Raspberry Pi, a camera module, a pair of binoculars and some laser-cut pieces of wood and fashioned the PiNoculars. You can see from the picture what it is – a pair of binoculars with a video…
Build a KittyCam using a Raspberry Pi and Node.js
During the summer, Tomomi Imura built a Node.js app which captured images from the Raspberry Pi camera module and used animal facial recognition to store them based on whether or not her pet cat was detected. The Pi uses a…
Cloud security camera using a Raspberry Pi
Tony Dicola over at Adafruit has published a tutorial which takes you through the steps needed to create a motion-sensor controlled security camera which uploads photographs to Dropbox so they can be viewed from anywhere in the world. They’ve even included…
Big wide eyes with a Raspberry Pi compute module
The Interactive Architecture Lab is based in University College London and they have been working on producing a prosthetic suit called the Polymelia. It’s all about improving the human body through a series of prostheses… I think… it’s all a…
Lunar eclipse time-lapse with the Raspberry Pi
Norbert Heinz (HomoFaciens) took his Raspberry Pi, a camera module and a zoom lens and captured a time-lapse of the recent lunar eclipse. You can see the time-lapse and an explanation of his method in the video below: He has written…
New version of Raspberry Pi Scratch brings native GPIO support
When Raspbian Jessie was launched a week-and-a-bit ago, included in it was a new version of Scratch. In addition to an overall improvement in speed/performance, native GPIO support was introduced as well as the ability to control the Camera Module. This…
Make your own Raspberry Pi night vision goggles
Maker/enthusiast Mr Fid has taken a cheap pair of video goggles and attached a Raspberry Pi, a Pi NoIR camera and an IR light source. He has then fed the composite video output of the Pi into the goggles and…
Use a Codebug to take pictures with your Raspberry Pi
Codebug, the ex-Kickstarter project, is now on sale at CPC for £15. The small board can be connected up to a Raspberry Pi via USB and used as an input device via a Python library. Thomas Macpherson-Pope has, over on the…
Lizard selfies with a Raspberry Pi
Roberto Marquez has set-up a Raspberry Pi to take pictures of his lizard. The Pi listens for a GPIO pin to change state, triggered by a capacitive touch sensor. All his Java code is available on GitHub. You can see a…