Farnell/Element 14 have launched a photography competition to celebrate the launch of the Camera Module. Take a photo with your camera module to enter. Subjects can be one of the following: your workshop, your Pi project, pets and people or ‘outdoors’. You then need to create a blog post on their site with your photograph to enter the competition. The prize is quite cool actually – when they launch new accessories on the Farnell site, you get one… until the end of this year, so I hope they’ve got a few things coming out.
Camera module – official announcement from #RaspberryPi Foundation
The Foundation have just officially announced the availability of the camera module from both RS Components and Farnell/Element 14. They’ve also written a healthy introduction to using it, including streaming from the camera to both Linux and Windows. Expect to see some blog posts from me about using these instructions in the next couple of days. Read the official Foundation announcement here
#RaspberryPi CPU Usage Monitoring With A BerryClip
Matt, over at Raspberry Pi Spy, has written a script to monitor CPU usage and then use the BerryClip add-on board to display the status. Read more here
#RaspberryPi Camera board setup
James Adams from the Foundation has shot a video in which he shows the unboxing and first connection of the camera module. Remember: this is available from Farnell tomorrow.
#RaspberryPi camera module availability date & price
Farnell are currently showing the future availability of the camera module at under 2000 units from…. the 27th May! Farnell have sent out an email to ‘Register your interest’ registrants saying the camera will be available to order from the 14th May. Here’s their announcement. Only one-per-customer, unsurprisingly.
The price they are currently showing is £16.56+VAT (which is just under the £20 mark).
From my experiments with the one sent to me by the Foundation, it’s well worth that kind of money!
Voice Command v2.0 for the #RaspberryPi
Steve Hickson has just released the second version of his voice command software in which you can issue voice commands to your Raspberry Pi and have configured actions happen in response.