Camera module, Photography, Video

Timelapse photography with the #RaspberryPi camera module / @Raspberry_Pi

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I am now saving a picture from the camera every minute. I’ve written some PHP and JQuery to create a timelapse of the images. They will update throughout the night and, with any luck, by the morning I’ll have a lovely timelapse of the breaking dawn. Unless I run out of disk space (which shouldn’t crash the Pi as I’m checking to make sure that I don’t take any more photos if I’ve used 95% of the space available).

Oh, the filename is shown below the timelapse so you can see what time the photo was taken.

This timelapse is updated automatically by (and is hosted on) the Raspberry Pi itself!

Interesting things start to happen after 5am (0500)

Unfortunately, I havent been able to find a reliable way to pre-load the images. Anyone know how to do it with jQuery? I’ve tried loads of things!

Camera module, Photography

Live pictures from #RaspberryPi camera module (I hope!)

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Here’s an experiment! I’ve set-up my Pi to automatically take a picture every minute with the new Raspberry Pi Camera Module. The current image is below and is taken out of my study window. Right in the centre (between the houses) is what we refer to as the Potton Pole, which is actually the Sandy Heath transmitter. Depending on the weather, it may or may not be visible. It came as somewhat of a shock to realise that it was right there opposite the house!

Please be kind if the image doesn’t show when you view it – I might’ve turned the Pi off or it might’ve gone wrong!

My next step is to get a pan/tilt mechanism working so I can move the camera remotely. At the moment, the board is held up by one of those helping hands things!

Hour 8 update: still going, clearly having taken pictures throughout the night.

Hour 13 update: still going, though I think the helping hands are slowly drooping off to the right… I really must get it to save each picture so I can do time-lapse.