Raspberry-Pi-Drone-and-Flight-Camera-Module

Raspberry Pi Camera module intended for Drone/Flight devices.

Requirements:

• Raspberry Pi Model 3 B+
• Raspberry Pi Camera Module
• picamera module (pre-installed with raspbian)
• time module (pre-installed with raspbian)
• os module (pre-installed with raspbian)
• random module (pre-installed with raspbian)
• USB (32GB+ Recommended for lengthy projects)*

*You can use the Raspberry Pi as the directory to save folders, but this is not recommended, unless if you're SD card can fit multiple videos during unhandled flight.

Setup:

1. Bootup Raspberry Pi
2. Clone/Download the repository
3. Open python file, and replace the "path" variable with the raspberry pi to your USB.
4. Check if the USB path is correct, and change opacity & time settings to your liking.

How it works:

1. Program intializes picamera module, and checks if the USB directory exists.
2. In the directory set, check if there is already a folder that exists with the set video name ('folder' in this case), if there is, iterate, until the folder name does not exist, set folder name as 'folder#' (# replaced with highest folder number).
3. In video directory, do the same execution as setting a folder directory.
4. Run Camera Module using opacity and time settings, save video as 'video#.h264', and repeat step 3, until the program is interrupted.