{"id":18949,"date":"2018-06-18T17:30:57","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T16:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=18949"},"modified":"2018-06-18T16:21:34","modified_gmt":"2018-06-18T15:21:34","slug":"simple-gui-for-creating-stop-motion-animations-with-the-raspberry-pi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=18949","title":{"rendered":"Simple GUI for creating stop motion animations with the Raspberry Pi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/stop-motion.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18950\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/stop-motion.jpg?resize=468%2C493&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"468\" height=\"493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/stop-motion.jpg?w=468&amp;ssl=1 468w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/stop-motion.jpg?resize=285%2C300&amp;ssl=1 285w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/stop-motion.jpg?resize=260%2C274&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/stop-motion.jpg?resize=160%2C169&amp;ssl=1 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Martin O&#8217;Hanlon, who recently joined Raspberry Pi as a Content and Curriculum Manager, has been playing around with the PiCamera library in conjunction with <a href=\"https:\/\/lawsie.github.io\/guizero\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">guizero<\/a>\u00a0which helps you to create simple user interfaces. He has created an app that runs on the Raspberry Pi that helps you to create stop-motion animations. You can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stuffaboutcode.com\/2018\/06\/pi-camera-stop-motion-animation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">download the software from his blog where there are instructions and information about how the app was written<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin O&#8217;Hanlon, who recently joined Raspberry Pi as a Content and Curriculum Manager, has been playing around with the PiCamera library in conjunction with guizero\u00a0which helps you to create simple user interfaces. 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