{"id":11008,"date":"2014-09-15T06:28:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T06:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11008"},"modified":"2014-09-15T06:28:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T06:28:00","slug":"build-a-camera-module-project-with-this-new-raspberry-pi-prototyping-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11008","title":{"rendered":"Build a camera module project with this new Raspberry Pi prototyping board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Saville, aka <a href=\"http:\/\/www.averagemanvsraspberrypi.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Average Man<\/a>, has just launched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/955730101\/protocam-the-raspberry-pi-camera-module-prototypin\" target=\"_blank\">his first Kickstarter campaign<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/955730101\/protocam-the-raspberry-pi-camera-module-prototypin\" target=\"_blank\">ProtoCam<\/a> is a prototyping board that plugs into the Pi&#8217;s GPIO pins and has a mounting space for the camera module.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/s3.amazonaws.com\/ksr\/assets\/002\/577\/706\/b493cc65f68a1f60489c52fd60a09fc5_large.jpg?resize=560%2C490&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"490\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are loads of different applications for this board &#8211; simply put,\u00a0anything you want to do with your camera module from adding a flash (lots of ultra-bright blinkies!) to adding a countdown timer to&#8230; well, anything you can come up with, basically.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/s3.amazonaws.com\/ksr\/assets\/002\/575\/780\/aa70051c45df2d2332148e09481e0f42_large.jpg?resize=560%2C420&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Richard has put together a fantastic Kickstarter page, with lots of detail, and his promotional video (below) is also excellent.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/955730101\/protocam-the-raspberry-pi-camera-module-prototypin\/widget\/video.html\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"> <\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The board costs \u00a38 (rising to \u00a39 post-Earlybird) and comes with all the fixings you need, including a GPIO header and a shorter camera ribbon cable. It&#8217;s great value. I&#8217;ve already pledged, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/955730101\/protocam-the-raspberry-pi-camera-module-prototypin\" target=\"_blank\">I recommend you do too<\/a> if you&#8217;ve got, or are thinking of getting, a camera module.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/955730101\/protocam-the-raspberry-pi-camera-module-prototypin\" target=\"_blank\">Visit the Kickstarter page here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Saville, aka The Average Man, has just launched his first Kickstarter campaign. The ProtoCam is a prototyping board that plugs into the Pi&#8217;s GPIO pins and has a mounting space for the camera module. There are loads of different&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11008\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,13,20,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camera-module","category-crowdfunding","category-gpio-boards","category-making"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Build a camera module project with this new Raspberry Pi prototyping board - Raspberry Pi Pod<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11008\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Build a camera module project with this new Raspberry Pi prototyping board - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Richard Saville, aka The Average Man, has just launched his first Kickstarter campaign. 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