Raspberry Pi Camera

Basics

• A minimalistic, rasberry pi based, point and shoot camera

Industry Standards

• A phone camera

Minimum Viable Product

• Cheap
• Modular
• Durable

Basic Design

• PiCAM - [1]
• $8 for 4000 mAh pack - [2]
• Pi Zero - [3] - takes 80 mA [4] to run - so in principle the 4000mAhr pack above will last 50 hours. But piCAM uses + 250 mA [5] so more like 10 hours for a 4000 mA power pack.

See Also

• This Section of the Construction Sets Page
• Open Source Camera Lens Construction Set
• Open Source Photo Camera Construction Set
• Open Source Video Camera Construction Set

Useful Links

• Great article on cameras and attaching lenses - [6]