This is my first project using my Raspberry Pi camera, we had a need to monitor our new Guinea Pigs and while my girlfriend was away I thought I’d use the Raspberry Pi camera to do this. The project provides the following functionality:
- Take a photo every x seconds
- Collate photos into a timelapse video
- upload the video to you-tube
Additional functions I added whilst I developed the system were:
- Generate the video if the memory becomes full to enable further monitoring
- Add a light sensor so that pictures of the dark are not taken, this would also allow the processing to be done during downtime (if the memory card is large enough)
- Add a switch to enable the program to end cleanly Continue reading “Time-lapse photography using the Raspberry Pi Camera”