Slimline point-and-shoot camera from Ben Heck

Ben Heck, King of the Makers, has made the prettiest point-and-shoot camera build we’ve seen done with a Raspberry Pi. The secret to it is a bit of desoldering and depopulating the Pi he uses, to slim down the profile of the board – he’s yanked nearly everything except the SoC – the processor and memory package in the middle of the Pi. (If we were you, Ben, we’d have used a Model B+ so you didn’t have that SD card sticking out.) Our own Ben Nuttall, who affects to be totally unimpressed by  everything , was overheard saying: “That’s a very cool camera.” There is no higher praise.

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Slimline point-and-shoot camera from Ben Heck

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