[Noisebridge-discuss] My video project needs a Raspberry Pi and/or low quality usb webcam

Dean Mao dean.mao at hackerdojo.com
Sun Mar 30 07:39:07 UTC 2014


Well, the Hacker Dojo doesn't give out raspberry pis with camera
attachments, but I do own a RPi with camera:
http://www.raspberrypi.org/camera



On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 4:36 PM, James Sundquist
<sundquistjames at gmail.com>wrote:

> Have you done this yourself?  Is there something like this at Hacker Dojo?
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 5:39 PM, Dean Mao <dean.mao at hackerdojo.com> wrote:
>
>> FYI, the RPi has a camera module that attaches via ribbon cable to a port
>> that is specifically for the camera.  It will have lower latency than usb.
>>  The camera itself is smaller than any usb camera on the market because it
>> lacks an enclosure.  (you need to make one yourself)
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 4:21 PM, Jake <jake at spaz.org> wrote:
>>
>>> they are super cool, and so small that i can't find mine right now.
>>>
>>> they have only a small amount of FLASH onboard for bootup, but if you
>>> need more you can use a USB stick as a boot drive :)
>>>
>>> only 32mb RAM but you can upgrade to 64mb if you can solder surfacemount
>>> with hotair :)
>>>
>>> and they have GPIO pins like any good microcontroller, and a TTL serial
>>> port that can talk directly to a regular microcontroller (which has
>>> burlier, 5v GPIO pins for driving your robot)
>>>
>>> openWRT is a really neat project, and it even has its own package
>>> manager that is super cool.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, 28 Mar 2014, Naomi Most wrote:
>>>
>>>  Whoa.  That is cool, I did not know that.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 3:26 PM, Jake <jake at spaz.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> James i recommend running openWRT (foss linux for wireless routers and
>>>>> similar) on a WR703N which is a $22 wifi router with an ethernet port.
>>>>>
>>>>> plug a usb webcam into the usb port and you're on!  you can internet
>>>>> with
>>>>> the wifi or the ethernet port.
>>>>>
>>>>> it runs off of a microusb jack, so you can power it with a standard
>>>>> phone
>>>>> charger or portable battery pack thing.
>>>>>
>>>>> what is this for?
>>>>>
>>>>> -jake
>>>>>
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>>>>
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>>
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>
>


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