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Introduction<\/strong><\/p>\n

Richard Saville, also known as the Average Man<\/a>,\u00a0is currently running a Kickstarter campaign<\/a>\u00a0to fund the ProtoCam. The ProtoCam<\/a> is a prototyping board onto which you can attach your Raspberry Pi camera module and then build whatever circuit you want around it. I spent a morning and an afternoon with a sample board Richard sent me and I have to say I’m really impressed.<\/p>\n

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You can see what comes in the package above (not the dead fly – that’s extra!). You get the prototyping circuit board, an extended 26-way GPIO header, 4 short plastic screws\/nuts (for attaching the camera to the underside of the board) and 1 long plastic screw\/nut (which acts as a stand-off or support for the board). The Kickstarter package also comes with a short ribbon cable for your camera. You’ll see from my pictures later that I only had an extra-long ribbon cable – the one Richard is supplying is\u00a0much<\/em> shorter and more appropriate and will fold under very conveniently.<\/p>\n

Quality and layout<\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s a very good\u00a0quality board and the black-and-gold styling is very nice to look at. Richard has specified\u00a0nickel-gold plating on the pads which provides\u00a0a very good soldering surface.\u00a0It’s double-sided, so you can solder on top or on the bottom. As you can see, all the GPIO pins are broken out and labelled and the prototyping area is split up into 3-hole and 2-hole strips. There are four 5-hole strips in the middle at the top, primarily to be used for providing more power\/ground rails.<\/p>\n

Using the board<\/strong><\/p>\n

I first of all soldered on the extended header. I wanted to use it on a B+ (it’s the Pi I had available) but Richard wasn’t too sure it could be used on a B+ because of the USB ports. So, I used a technique demonstrated by Alex Eames of RasPi.TV<\/a>\u00a0where you don’t push the header all the way through, thus raising the circuit board slightly away from the ports.<\/p>\n

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Here’s the board satisfactorily sitting on the B+:<\/p>\n

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And here’s the board sitting on a model A (although it will sit just as well on a B):<\/p>\n

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Using it in a\u00a0project<\/strong><\/p>\n

I wanted to do more than just put the ProtoCam onto the Pi – I wanted to build a circuit and prove that it works as intended. My aim was to build a camera which uses a button to trigger the taking of a photo and uses LEDs as a ‘built in flash’. This is obviously just a proof of concept (especially as I had no white LEDs!), and a bit of fun! So here is my effort:<\/p>\n

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It’s not the prettiest job you’ll ever see, but it does work! I soldered everything together and wrote the code. You can see the code here on GitHub<\/a>.\u00a0If I had to do the project again, I would probably work out some way of soldering everything onto the underside\u00a0to make it tidier.<\/p>\n

Conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have to say, for projects where you want to integrate the camera, the ProtoCam works brilliantly – the amount of real-estate you have for prototyping is great and the finish is first-rate.<\/p>\n

The ProtoCam costs \u00a39. Considering the real-estate available, the quality of the board and the bits-and-pieces you get with it,\u00a0this is very good value. Although my project is pretty low-scale, I hope you can see the possibilities. Richard’s posted some more uses of the board on the Kickstarter page<\/a> if you’d like to see how else it can be used.<\/p>\n

If you’ve got any questions about the board, feel free to post them in the comments section below. Alternatively, you can contact Richard directly on Twitter<\/a> or through his blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I really hope you’ll consider backing the project on Kickstarter<\/a>. Richard has really taken the time to develop a top class product that I think\u00a0you’ll really enjoy using.<\/p>\n

\"\"\u00a0You can support the Kickstarter and get hold of a ProtoCam by visiting this page.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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