Just saw this come up on the Foundation forum. CPC/Farnell are currently selling a model A Pi and a camera module for £31 delivered.
#RaspberryPi photobooth at Open Hardware Summit
Kevin Osborn at Bald Wisdom has built on the work of a friend of his who created a Raspberry Pi tablet. Aiming to allow personalisation of an e-paper badge, he hooked up a Raspberry Pi to an LVDS screen (via an HDMI adapter) and a huge button and made a photo booth. There’s a lot more detail on his page. Read how he did it here
For more information about creating a Raspberry Pi tablet (though a different one to that mentioned above), visit this page or download the PDF tutorial.
Building a #RaspberryPi twitter bot
James Bruce has written a nice tutorial on creating a daemon that runs on the Pi to tweet webcam images. A little modification, perhaps using the previously posted Python library, to use the Raspicam and you have a great project!
pi_piper – an event-driven Python library for #RaspberryPi
Jason Whitehorn has written a library for Python to control/read the GPIO pins based on events. It means you can write code like:
watch :pin => 23 do
puts "Pin changed from #{last_value} to #{value}"
end
#Or
after :pin => 23, :goes => :high do
puts "Button pressed"
end… which is very intuitive and is an excellent way of doing it.
Run Raspivid from Python on the #RaspberryPi
Martin O’Hanlon has created a brilliant Python class to control raspivid. It works on a threaded basis so you can trigger the camera without causing your calling code to wait for it to finish. I recommend this to anyone who uses Python and wants to control their camera. Great stuff.
Reducing the footprint of a #RaspberryPi
Nice little article about removing the RCA video connector and the audio jack. The author also gives a really reckless way of reducing your SD card footprint by… snipping at it with a pair of scissors. I cannot dissuade you more from this procedure – not all SD cards are made the same way and you can end up damaging your card very easily. I recommend getting a micro-SD adapter to solve the problem.