Timelapses with the Raspberry Pi

When I left Egressive, they gave me a Raspberry Pi (a very small computer) to play with. The Raspberry Pi (or Pi) in my opinion, is one of the most exciting developments in computers in the last while. The reason being, it allows, for very little money, people to experiment with programming, with making their own “stuff”… definitely a part / precursor to the Internet of Things. Part of the work of the Raspberry Pi foundation is fostering literacy regarding computers, get kids playing with them early… it has taken off in a big way in the UK (where it started) and as such I would expect in 15 years time to see a lot of exciting developments in the tech scene in the UK.

Anyway, I bought a little camera, hooked it in, wrote a short script to take pictures and turn them into a video, and now, every day, I (automatically) get a new 2 minute timelapse.

Here is one of the better ones (yes, I did change the camera angle 1/2 way through as I was home)

It’s partially documented on my wiki. I also spent a couple of days throwing together my first “single page app” to display the timelapses. So.. if you want to see the very latest ones – just checkout http://timelapses.psdavey.com/.

The site is certainly unfinished, but it does the trick.

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