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Raspberry Pi All Sky Camera

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Thomas Jacquin built this Raspberry Pi based all sky camera to capture the Northern Lights. Capable of taking pictures of the entire sky over a certain amount of time, the camera is best suitable for recording meteor showers and other astronomical phenomena. I built mine to monitor the northern lights. I live in the Yukon and we sometimes get beautiful aurora displays during the night. However, I also have a day time job and I need my 8 hours of sleep. I created this camera to record a movie of the entire night. That way, I can replay the movie

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Another RPi-based solar powered weather station

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Brian Masney from Morgantown, WV has designed a full-featured solar powered weather station that includes sensors for measuring rain, wind, temperature, humidity, and pressure. It runs on a Raspberry Pi Zero running the latest Raspbian Testing Lite and is powered by a 6600mAH 3.7V lithium ion battery that is charged using a 6V 9W solar panel. The solar panel is attached to the top of the project box using several large pieces of Velcro. More information about the solar setup can be found on Adafruit’s Website. Be sure to connect the PowerBoost 1000 to the battery charge output pins; not to

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Open Indirect Ophthalmoscope is a portable screening device for retinal diseases

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Ebin Philip is participating in Hack A Day Prize 2016 with his Open Indirect Ophthalmoscope, which is an open source, affordable, and portable screening device for capturing quality retinal images. Diabetic Retinopathy is a complication of diabetes causing damage to the retina, eventually leading to blindness. The cost of state of the art retinal imaging devices required for identifying this disorder lies in the range $10,000 – $25,000. This makes them inaccessible for the population in rural areas or developing countries. We aim to develop a device under $400 which can provide reasonable quality retinal images to clinicians. Currently there are

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PiNoculars – A Raspberry Pi powered Binoculars

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Joshdont has shared his Pinoculars- a raspberry pi powered binoculars project on Instructables: Strap a Raspberry Pi 2 + Camera to a pair of binoculars (or telescope, microscope, etc.) and use one of adafruit’s touch LCDs + custom raspbian image to view and take pictures. (Scroll through the photos above for examples / comparisons) This project takes more time, money and is clunkier than if you were to purchase a commercial product. You’re probably not on instructables because you wanted to buy a solution ; ) There are two sets of instructions here! See the images and video above for

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