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This page collects different ways to use Raspberry Pi computer boards (and related boards) to make small, cheap, lightweight cameras for different purposes, including #aerial-mapping, #balloon-mapping, #kite-mapping, #timelapse and #spectrometry.

Raspberry Pi Simple Camera Kit

We've been working on some software for this widely used mini camera-and-computer in a tiny box (especially the lightweight "Zero W" model) to make it available with a pre-flashed SD card that turns this into a ready-to-use WiFi enabled camera. This gets over many of the barriers of using the regular Raspberry Pi kit and having to do a lot of programming/installing to get it running.

We've managed to get a plug and play version running! Just plug it in using a Micro USB cable (or battery pack) and it'll create a WiFi network called "00PiCamera" -- password "publiclab" -- which you can log into from your phone or laptop. You'll quickly see streaming video, be able to take photos, timelapses, or videos, do motion triggered capture, and more:

• Pi Camera Kit
• Infragram Pi Camera Kit
• our Microscope Pi kits use this as well
• Pre-flashed SD cards for Raspberry Pi cameras
• combine with (maybe?) CR123a lithium battery (and tell us how that goes!)

For more on the open source Pi Builder software that made this possible, see this blog post and troubleshoot on this wiki page

Questions

Questions can be either frequently asked questions, or "next step" challenges we're looking to solve.

[questions:pi-camera]

Activities

Activities show how to use this project, step by step.

[activities:pi-camera]

Resources

• Camera module http://m.e-cantonfair.com/#/product/552106
• Focus tricks https://raspi.tv/2013/adapt-your-raspberry-pi-camera-for-close-up-use
• Very detailed documentation https://elinux.org/Rpi_Camera_Module
• Datasheets and very detailed documentation on v1 camera: https://github.com/techyian/MMALSharp/wiki/OmniVision-OV5647-Camera-Module
• Datasheets and very detailed documentation on v2 camera: https://github.com/techyian/MMALSharp/wiki/Sony-IMX219-Camera-Module

This page collects different ways to use Raspberry Pi computer boards (and related boards) to make small, cheap, lightweight cameras for different purposes, including #aerial-mapping, #balloon-mapping, #kite-mapping, #timelapse and #spectrometry.

Raspberry Pi Simple Camera Kit

We've been working on some software for this widely used mini camera-and-computer in a tiny box (especially the lightweight "Zero W" model) to make it available with a pre-flashed SD card that turns this into a ready-to-use WiFi enabled camera. This gets over many of the barriers of using the regular Raspberry Pi kit and having to do a lot of programming/installing to get it running.

We've managed to get a plug and play version running! Just plug it in using a Micro USB cable (or battery pack) and it'll create a WiFi network called "00PiCamera" -- password "publiclab" -- which you can log into from your phone or laptop. You'll quickly see streaming video, be able to take photos, timelapses, or videos, do motion triggered capture, and more:

https://store.publiclab.org/products/raspberry-pi-camera

For more on the open source Pi Builder software that made this possible, see this blog post and troubleshoot on this wiki page

Questions

Questions can be either frequently asked questions, or "next step" challenges we're looking to solve.

[questions:pi-camera]

Activities

Activities show how to use this project, step by step.

[activities:pi-camera]

Resources

• Camera module http://m.e-cantonfair.com/#/product/552106
• Focus tricks https://raspi.tv/2013/adapt-your-raspberry-pi-camera-for-close-up-use
• Very detailed documentation https://elinux.org/Rpi_Camera_Module
• Datasheets and very detailed documentation on v1 camera: https://github.com/techyian/MMALSharp/wiki/OmniVision-OV5647-Camera-Module
• Datasheets and very detailed documentation on v2 camera: https://github.com/techyian/MMALSharp/wiki/Sony-IMX219-Camera-Module

This page collects different ways to use Raspberry Pi computer boards (and related boards) to make small, cheap, lightweight cameras for different purposes, including #aerial-mapping, #balloon-mapping, #kite-mapping, #timelapse and #spectrometry.

Raspberry Pi Simple Camera Kit

We've been working on some software for this widely used mini camera-and-computer in a tiny box (especially the lightweight "Zero W" model) to make it available with a pre-flashed SD card that turns this into a ready-to-use WiFi enabled camera. This gets over many of the barriers of using the regular Raspberry Pi kit and having to do a lot of programming/installing to get it running.

We've managed to get a plug and play version running! Just plug it in using a Micro USB cable (or battery pack) and it'll create a WiFi network called "00PiCamera" -- password "publiclab" -- which you can log into from your phone or laptop. You'll quickly see streaming video, be able to take photos, timelapses, or videos, do motion triggered capture, and more:

https://store.publiclab.org/products/raspberry-pi-camera

For more on the open source Pi Builder software that made this possible, see this blog post and troubleshoot on this wiki page

Questions

Questions can be either frequently asked questions, or "next step" challenges we're looking to solve.

[questions:pi-camera]

Activities

Activities show how to use this project, step by step.

[activities:pi-camera]

Resources

• Camera module http://m.e-cantonfair.com/#/product/552106
• Focus tricks https://raspi.tv/2013/adapt-your-raspberry-pi-camera-for-close-up-use
• Very detailed documentation https://elinux.org/Rpi_Camera_Module

This page collects different ways to use Raspberry Pi computer boards (and related boards) to make small, cheap, lightweight cameras for different purposes, including #aerial-mapping, #balloon-mapping, #kite-mapping, #timelapse and #spectrometry.

Raspberry Pi Simple Camera Kit

We've been working on some software for this widely used mini camera-and-computer in a tiny box (especially the lightweight "Zero W" model) to make it available with a pre-flashed SD card that turns this into a ready-to-use WiFi enabled camera. This gets over many of the barriers of using the regular Raspberry Pi kit and having to do a lot of programming/installing to get it running.

We've managed to get a plug and play version running! Just plug it in using a Micro USB cable (or battery pack) and it'll create a WiFi network called "00PiCamera" -- password "publiclab" -- which you can log into from your phone or laptop. You'll quickly see streaming video, be able to take photos, timelapses, or videos, do motion triggered capture, and more:

https://store.publiclab.org/products/raspberry-pi-camera

For more on the open source Pi Builder software that made this possible, see this blog post.

Questions

Questions can be either frequently asked questions, or "next step" challenges we're looking to solve.

[questions:pi-camera]

Activities

Activities show how to use this project, step by step.

[activities:pi-camera]

Resources

• Camera module http://m.e-cantonfair.com/#/product/552106
• Focus tricks https://raspi.tv/2013/adapt-your-raspberry-pi-camera-for-close-up-use
• Very detailed documentation https://elinux.org/Rpi_Camera_Module

This page collects different ways to use Raspberry Pi computer boards (and related boards) to make small, cheap, lightweight cameras for different purposes, including #aerial-mapping, #balloon-mapping, #kite-mapping, #timelapse and #spectrometry.

Raspberry Pi Simple Camera Kit

We've been working on some software for this widely used mini camera-and-computer in a tiny box (especially the lightweight "Zero W" model) to make it available with a pre-flashed SD card that turns this into a ready-to-use WiFi enabled camera. This gets over many of the barriers of using the regular Raspberry Pi kit and having to do a lot of programming/installing to get it running.

We've managed to get a plug and play version running! Just plug it in using a Micro USB cable (or battery pack) and it'll create a WiFi network called "00PiCamera" -- password "publiclab" -- which you can log into from your phone or laptop. You'll quickly see streaming video, be able to take photos, timelapses, or videos, do motion triggered capture, and more:

https://store.publiclab.org/products/raspberry-pi-camera

Questions

Questions can be either frequently asked questions, or "next step" challenges we're looking to solve.

[questions:pi-camera]

Activities

Activities show how to use this project, step by step.

[activities:pi-camera]

Resources

• Camera module http://m.e-cantonfair.com/#/product/552106
• Focus tricks https://raspi.tv/2013/adapt-your-raspberry-pi-camera-for-close-up-use
• Very detailed documentation https://elinux.org/Rpi_Camera_Module

This page collects different ways to use Raspberry Pi computer boards (and related boards) to make small, cheap, lightweight cameras for different purposes, including #aerial-mapping, #balloon-mapping, #kite-mapping, #timelapse and #spectrometry.

Raspberry Pi Simple Camera Kit

We've been working on some software for this widely used mini camera-and-computer in a tiny box (especially the lightweight "Zero W" model) to make it available with a pre-flashed SD card that turns this into a ready-to-use WiFi enabled camera. This gets over many of the barriers of using the regular Raspberry Pi kit and having to do a lot of programming/installing to get it running.

We've managed to get a plug and play version running! Just plug it in using a Micro USB cable (or battery pack) and it'll create a WiFi network called "00PiCamera" -- password "publiclab" -- which you can log into from your phone or laptop. You'll quickly see streaming video, be able to take photos, timelapses, or videos, do motion triggered capture, and more:

https://store.publiclab.org/products/raspberry-pi-camera

Questions

Questions can be either frequently asked questions, or "next step" challenges we're looking to solve.

[questions:pi-camera]

Activities

Activities show how to use this project, step by step.

[activities:pi-camera]

This page collects different ways to use Raspberry Pi computer boards (and related boards) to make small, cheap, lightweight cameras for different purposes, including #aerial-mapping, #balloon-mapping, #kite-mapping, #timelapse and #spectrometry.

Constraints

camara

[prompt:paragraph:What are your constraints]

Questions

Questions can be either frequently asked questions, or "next step" challenges we're looking to solve.

[questions:pi-camera]

Activities

Activities show how to use this project, step by step.

[activities:pi-camera]

This page collects different ways to use Raspberry Pi computer boards (and related boards) to make small, cheap, lightweight cameras for different purposes, including #aerial-mapping, #balloon-mapping, #kite-mapping, #timelapse and #spectrometry.

Constraints

camara

[prompt:paragraph:What are your constraints]

Questions

Questions can be either frequently asked questions, or "next step" challenges we're looking to solve.

[questions:pi-camera]

Activities

Activities show how to use this project, step by step.

[activities:pi-camera]

This page collects different ways to use Raspberry Pi computer boards (and related boards) to make small, cheap, lightweight cameras for different purposes, including #aerial-mapping, #balloon-mapping, #kite-mapping, #timelapse and #spectrometry.

Constraints

camara

[prompt:paragraph:What are your constraints]

Questions

Questions can be either frequently asked questions, or "next step" challenges we're looking to solve.

[questions:pi-camera]

Activities

Activities show how to use this project, step by step.

[activities:pi-camera]

This page collects different ways to use Raspberry Pi computer boards (and related boards) to make small, cheap, lightweight cameras for different purposes, including #aerial-mapping, #balloon-mapping, #kite-mapping, #timelapse and #spectrometry.

Constraints

camara

[prompt:paragraph:What are your constraints]

Questions

Questions can be either frequently asked questions, or "next step" challenges we're looking to solve.

[questions:pi-camera]

Activities

Activities show how to use this project, step by step.

[activities:pi-camera]

This page collects different ways to use Raspberry Pi computer boards (and related boards) to make small, cheap, lightweight cameras for different purposes, including #aerial-mapping, #balloon-mapping, #kite-mapping, #timelapse and #spectrometry.

Constraints

camara

[prompt:paragraph:What are your constraints]

Questions

Questions can be either frequently asked questions, or "next step" challenges we're looking to solve.

[questions:pi-camera]

Activities

Activities show how to use this project, step by step.

[activities:pi-camera]

This page collects different ways to use Raspberry Pi computer boards (and related boards) to make small, cheap, lightweight cameras for different purposes, including #aerial-mapping, #balloon-mapping, #kite-mapping, #timelapse and #spectrometry.

Constraints

[prompt:paragraph:What are your constraints]

Questions

Questions can be either frequently asked questions, or "next step" challenges we're looking to solve.

[questions:pi-camera]

Activities

Activities show how to use this project, step by step.

[activities:pi-camera]

This page collects different ways to use Raspberry Pi computer boards (and related boards) to make small, cheap, lightweight cameras for different purposes, including #aerial-mapping, #balloon-mapping, #kite-mapping, #timelapse and #spectrometry.

Constraints

[prompt:paragraph:What are your constraints]

Questions

Questions can be either frequently asked questions, or "next step" challenges we're looking to solve.

[questions:pi-camera]

Activities

Activities show how to use this project, step by step.

[activities:pi-camera]