China-based electronics manufacturer DFRobot has just launched a new Kickstarter to fund the HuskyLens, an A.I.-enhanced camera module. Built into the camera circuit is a Kendryte K210 chip, a 400MHz dual core RISC-V 64bit processor which facilitates the following algorithms:…
A crafty maker called Mitxela has taken an old Polaroid camera and converted it to use a Raspberry Pi Zero and a thermal printer. The build itself is interesting and involved replacing the innards with the necessary circuitry for the…
dekuNukem has created a great system for keeping track of how long you spend playing games working hard in front of your computer screen. He’s taken a Pi camera module, which is focused on the computer user and a Raspberry Pi…
Sophy Wong and her husband have built themselves a selfie booth using a Raspberry Pi. The booth has a camera (obviously) and a screen which displays a facial expression. The selfies taken are printed out by a thermal printer and…
Jamie from The Pi Hut has been in touch about some new products he’s launched today and I thought I’d pass the info on. Colour-coded GPIO header First up, we have a colour-coded GPIO 40-pin header for the Raspberry Pi Zero.…
Matt, over at Raspberry Pi Spy, has written a great tutorial that shows you how to set-up your Raspberry Pi with the motionEyeOS operating system. It lets you create yourself a CCTV camera that works over IP on your network.…
Over on Hackaday.io, Pierre Muth has documented his build of a Raspberry Pi Zero-based camera that prints photographs on an internal thermal printer. Called the PolaPi-Zero, it uses an Adafruit Nano Thermal Printer and some other parts as well as a 3D-printed case.…
