Adafruit bakers cook up Raspberry Pi eyewear to rival Google Glass Inquirer “We love it as a proof of concept, and it's not too much of a leap to get voice recognition (which the Pi handles admirably) working on a piece of kit like this; mounting a Raspberry Pi camera board on there shouldn't be too much of a stretch either …
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Adafruit bakers cook up Raspberry Pi eyewear to rival Google Glass – Inquirer
The good people at Adafruit have a new tutorial up on making a wearable display, powered by a Pi, that clips on to your regular glasses or (if you’re a Terminator with perfect vision) sunglasses.
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Google Glass, Pi-style
A couple of books projects for you today. One is simple, practical and of great use to the visually-impaired. The other is over-complicated, and a little bit nuts; nonetheless, we think it’s rather wonderful; and actually kind of useful if you’ve got a lot of patience.
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Books, the digitising and text-to-speechifying thereof
Even though Carrie Anne Philbin is working here at Pi Towers now, she’s still carrying on with the Geek Gurl Diaries YouTube channel that she set up before she joined us – for which we’re all profoundly grateful, because her videos are some of the best tutorials we’ve seen.
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Timelapse tutorial from Carrie Anne’s Geek Gurl Diaries
Martin O’Hanlon’s a familiar name in these parts, especially for fans of Minecraft: his repository of Pi Minecraft tricks and tutorials is one of our favourite resources. But Martin’s not all about magicking Menger- Sierpinski Sponges into the Minecraft universe: he does wonderful stuff with hardware and the Raspberry Pi too
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GPS-tracking helmet cam
Pocket-lint.com You can hack the Raspberry Pi into a touchscreen camera Pocket-lint.com Shown-off on video, Raspberry Pi owners can get the PiTFT Mini Kit to attach a touchscreen and the Raspberry Pi Camera Board to add a 5-megapixel camera shooter to the rig. A standard SD memory card is required for saving images, and if you really want
Build a Raspberry Pi Powered Touchscreen Point-and-Shoot Camera Lifehacker The Raspberry Pi's extra camera board won't win any photography boards, but if you want to make your own camera entirely from scratch, Adafruit has a kit and guide for doing just that. You'll need a Raspberry Pi , the Raspberry Pi Camera Board,
A guest post today: I’m just off a plane and can barely string a sentence together. Thanks so much to all the progressive maths teachers we met at the Wolfram conference in ew York this week; we’re looking forward to finding out what your pupils do with Mathematica from now on! Over to Adam Kemény, from photobot.co in Hove, where he spends the day making robotic photobooths. This summer Photobot.Co Ltd built what we believe to be the world’s first Twitter-triggered photobooth.
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Twitter-triggered photobooth
ElectronicsWeekly.com Raspberry Pi goes nocturnal with infrared camera module ElectronicsWeekly.com The module itself measures 20mm x 25mm x 9mm, can also record up to 1080p HD videos at 30 frames per second. RS Components is selling the camera board for £16.80. Optional extras include an infrared lamp, a Raspberry Pi camera stand, and various
Geeky gadgets Meet Raspberry Pi NoIR, an infrared camera board for low light photography Engadget If Raspberry Pi owners wanted to use the device's camera board for nighttime photography, they had to engage in some extremely delicate tinkering, as the unit's IR filter was firmly attached. Until now. The folks at Raspberry Pi took to their blog ..
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Meet Raspberry Pi NoIR, an infrared camera board for low light photography – Engadget