The Raspberry Pi Foundation has posted a lovely explanation of a project carried out by Argon Design. They were given a Compute Module and development board and hooked up two camera modules to it. They then wrote an algorithm to detect depth using the stereo vision two cameras gave them. Read more about it here.
South Korean artists Shin Seung Back and Kim Yung Hun, together with costume designer Jehee Sheen, have created a jacket embedded with dozens of cameras which can be used to capture a 360-degree picture of the wearer’s environment. At the touch of a button, all the pictures are taken, stitched together into a panorama and then uploaded to the web. Details of how this is put together aren’t available, but we do know that a Raspberry Pi is used to collate the images and upload them. Known as the “Aposematic Jacket”, this is just an art project at the moment! You can see a video of the jacket in action below. You can also visit the artists’ blog to see more photographs of the jacket.
Pete Taylor has been working on converting a Holga camera into a digital camera using a Raspberry Pi. He previously explained how he’d fitted in a model A to the case and he’s now blogged about his continuing hacks and also published the code he is using. Read all about it here.
Alan O’Donohoe, who (along with Ben Nuttall) started off the whole Raspberry Jam initiative, has started up a new ‘thing’ and called it “Jam Packed“. It is a two-day community computing event aimed at schools and families comprising a “Hack to the Future” event, a Hackathon and a Raspberry Jam. He is currently looking to expand Jam Packed to the North of England and Scotland and has some dates available to start discussions off. The events are run free-of-charge to the host venue. If you’d like to read more, or you have in mind a venue that you think would benefit, please visit Alan’s blog for more details!
Phil Atkin met Stuart Pemberton a few weeks ago at the Lost Gardens of Heligan in Cornwall. They realised they were both fans of the Raspberry Pi and Stuart revealed a project that he’d been tasked to do: create a visitor attraction with the Raspberry Pi for the upcoming Halloween event. Well, Stuart has now finished the project and it’s on display in the Gardens. It detects passers-by and emits a sound effect. It originally made the sound of an owl, but it was too successful and was attracting real animals in search of a mate! So, now it makes the sound of wolf when people walk past. Read more on Phil’s blog or watch the video of it in action below:
Andrew Langley hacked an R2-D2 model and added a Raspberry Pi and a projector. I covered this previously on my blog. Now Linux User and Developer have tracked Andrew down and interviewed him on their website. Read the interview here. Full specs and an account of the build are available on Andrew’s blog.
