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Based on Nick Brewer’s DIY animated GIF camera, Michael built his own Raspberry Pi Zero W camera that captures GIF images and tweets them over WiFi! It uses a Pi camera module for capturing images. The Pi Zero is programmed to connect to a user-selected WiFi network for tweeting the gifs.
RPi Zero GIF camera
Gone are the days of vintage film cameras. If you still have one such camera lying around, you might want to consider upcycling it to a digital camera as a weekend fun project following this instrcutable. The author shows how to convert a 35mm twin-reflex film camera to digital using a Raspberry Pi zero with a camera module connected, a 1.8″ TFT LCD, and a rechargeable USB power bank. The camera also implement a push button for snapping pictures.
A vintage film camera turned digital using Raspberry Pi zero
The hardware setup for this project is simple. The TFT LCD data and control pins directly connect to the I/O pins of the Pi Zero. The LCD screen fits into the viewfinder spot of the twin-reflex camera so that you can visually see the field of view of the camera lens while snapping shots. The instructable also describes a detail software setup process along with python scripts for controlling camera and uploading the pictures to user’s dropbox account via WiFi. If you love watching videos, the author has also posted the same instructions in a two-part video tutorial. The link to the first part is posted below:
Most Raspberry Pi based cameras we have seen so far can take either photo, video or both. But Nick Brewer’s Raspberry Pi Zero camera is little different. It’s a fully customizable 3D printed camera using the Raspberry Pi camera with the capability to take short animated GIFs. The camera runs off a 2500mAH LiPO battery using Adafruit’s PowerBoost 500 charger board. The hardware is controlled with a bunch of softwares including PiCamera, GraphicsMagick, and GifCam. The 3D-printed case for the camera is neat and recalls the days of the disposable cameras.
Raspberry Pi animated GIF camera
Everything about this camera is designed to be modified.
Want the body of the camera to be a different shape? Play around with the 123D Design files.
Want longer gifs or a different exposure? Dig into the code!
Should it upload to twitter or straight to an SD card?
A 2200mAh lipo battery will give you around 7 hours of use.
A 2500mAh lipo battery will give you around 8 hours of use.
Action cameras are great for capturing your favorite sport activities. Connor Yamada‘s describes how to build a DIY action camera using Raspberry Pi A+ computer and a Pi camera board. This camera can take both still and movie shots and is bluetooth and wifi enabled that allows wireless file transfers between the camera and a host computer. Connor also designed a 3D-printed enclosure for the camera that houses everything including a 2000mAh capacity rechargeable battery.
Raspberry Pi based action camera
In order to reduce the form factor his action camera, Connor had to remove the USB jack from one USB port on the Pi board with some side cutters and solder a ribbon cable to the exposed USB lines so that he could directly connect the WiFi adapter to the board. He also hot glued the Bluetooth module on the top of the Raspberry Pi board so that the size of the enclosure would not exceed that of the RasPi board.
Check out this Raspberry Pi powered compact camera that uses PiJuice, an all in one battery module, to power the device.
Raspberry Pi powered compact camera
I’m so excited about this new project! A truly compact and portable Raspberry Pi Camera and it’s easy as anything to build!
I first thought about building a Raspberry Pi Camera after seeing theSnapPiCam instructable guide. This is a clever little project, which uses a LiPo battery to power a Raspberry Pi model A. But it got me thinking could I do something even more compact which is even simpler to build?
The real challenge is powering this little baby. Where the SnapPiCam is using a separate battery, converter and charging unit I’ve used the PiJuice. It’s basically an all in one battery module for the Raspberry Pi and it’s an ideal integrated power solution for a DIY Compact Camera.
I’ve also decided to use the Raspberry Pi a+ as it’s the cheapest and smallest available Raspberry Pi so it’ll fit nicely with PiJuice and make this camera supper compact!
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