Following on from Dave Jones’ excellent work on the Pi camera Python library, David Whale’s Raspberry Pi Saturday Club decided to use it to create a photobooth. They combined it with PyGame to do some text overlays and soon had…
Category: Photography
Create a #RaspberryPi touchscreen camera with Adafruit
Adafruit’s posted a fantastic tutorial on using the Pi and a PiTFT touchscreen to create a full touchscreen camera. As they admit, it’s unlikely to replace your ‘proper’ camera or even your smartphone, but it’s a great project to do…
Create your own animation studio with a #RaspberryPi – brilliant blog post!
This is an outstanding piece of work by Trevor Appleton. He has converted his Raspberry Pi into an animation studio by writing a piece of software (with a GUI) to take pictures with the camera module and then to string…
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…
Timelapse photography with the #RaspberryPi, Python and avconv
Trevor Appleton has done a very good, comprehensive tutorial on using a combination of Python and avconv to take photos with the camera module and then string them together as a video. Read the tutorial here
The Pi NoIR camera for #RaspberryPi goes on sale
Both Matt, over at Raspberry Pi Spy, and Alex over at RasPi.TV have got hold of a Pi NoIR camera module. This is the standard camera but without the infrared filter. As per the announcement on the Foundation homepage, you…
Official announcement for the #RaspberryPi No Infrared camera (PiNoIR)
One of the worst-kept secrets ever has finally been revealed by the Foundation. The new camera module without the IR filter, known as the Pi NoIR. DesignSpark recently released some time lapse videos of it literally ‘in the wild’. No…
Nocturnal Wildlife Watching with the #RaspberryPi and new IR camera
The new PiNoIR camera (which is like the regular camera module with the IR filter removed) has found it’s way over to the DesignSpark guys. (Well, they’re part of RS Components, so I expect it didn’t take long for it…
#RaspberryPi and camera module together to make a security camera
Christoph Buenger has written an extensive tutorial on creating a surveillance camera using the Pi and the camera module and Motion, the motion-detection software that gave people such difficulties. He’s done the sensible thing and linked out to the Foundation…
New #RaspberryPi night-vision camera module imminent
The cat is out of the bag now! The Foundation is soon to announce the availability of the Pi Noir. It’s a new version of the camera module, but with the IR filter removed thereby making it a night-vision camera.…