Earlier this week, the brand new Raspberry Pi Camera Module v2 was revealed to the world, its headline feature being an 8-megapixel sensor. It’s been a few years since the original came out and the new camera is an excellent little upgrade to the existing model; you can find out all the details in our complete breakdown in Issue 45 of The MagPi magazine, which is out today.
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Learn all about the new Raspberry Pi Camera Module v2 in The MagPi 45
IHS Electronics360 Raspberry Pi Gets a New Eight-megapixel Camera Addition IHS Electronics360 Back in 2013, the Raspberry Pi computer got its first official accessory, a five-megapixel visible-light camera board that facilitates projects like telescopes, kites and science lessons. Shortly after, the Pi NoIR infrared-sensitive version was … Raspberry Pi gets an 8-megapixel Sony camera upgrade Engadget Sony's higher-resolution sensor spices up Raspberry Pi's camera module Digital Trends Raspberry Pi's new camera board has an 8 megapixel sensor from 2014 The Verge Tech Times – Lifehacker all 35 news articles »
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We see a lot of Raspberry Pis being used as security cameras – check out this fine example that we blogged back in 2013 – they’re a cheap and effective solution for people who want to deter burglars and vandals.
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Weather, security and temperature cam
What if you used a Raspberry Pi and a Camera Module to breathe new life into an old 8mm film camera? That was the question on Claire Wright’s mind when she and her father set to work on modernizing an old motion picture camera that they found at a garage sale five years earlier.
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Hacking an 8mm Camera
Before we get down to it today, a quick notice: Matt Timmons-Brown, freshly released from GCSE exam hell, will be dropping in to do some video interviews for his Raspberry Pi Guy YouTube channel next week. Do you have any questions you’d like him to put to Eben
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Science lessons with the camera board
We’ve just spotted a third-party add-on for your Pi and Camera Board which we think you’ll find really useful.
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Camera board extension
As I type this, Emma is hugging herself and shouting “LOOK AT THE LOVELY BABY!” We believe that every office environment is enriched by biologists. The little guy/gal in the video above is a Tuatara – and I didn’t have to go to Wikipedia to learn more about them, because Emma is amazingly well-versed in New Zealand’s endemic lizards. One of her friends works in conserving Tuataras, which are endangered, in New Zealand.
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Watching an endangered Tuatara hatch
Ferran Fabregas worked out a couple of months ago how to render .jpg images in the Minecraft world using Minecraft Pi Edition. Our logo seemed an obvious place to start.
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Rendering camera images in Minecraft in real time
Start-up Naturebytes hopes their 3D printed Raspberry Pi camera trap (a camera triggered by the presence of animals) will be the beginning of a very special community of makers. Supported by the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s Education Fund and Nesta , Naturebytes aims to establish a digital making community for wildlife with a very important purpose.
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A digital making community for wildlife: Naturebytes camera traps