Bullet time effect with 48 #RaspberryPi and cameras

The team at PiFace Digital created a rig of 48 Pis, complete with camera modules and PiFace boards, put them into a circle and created the Frozen Pi – a bullet time photographic system. The Pis are triggered at the same time to take a photograph and the pics are then stitched together so that it appears that the subject of the photograph is frozen in place while the camera spins round them. Great project – used an awful lot of cable!

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3 comments for “Bullet time effect with 48 #RaspberryPi and cameras

  1. Is there no way this could work with one raspberry pi and 48 camera modules? Even if there was the smallest fraction of a delay between shots the effect would be similar?

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