The Dev/Iowa Telescope is a child of the first ever Dev/Iowa Hackathon. Via an HTML Page take an image, overlay the Dev/Iowa logo, it then uploads the photo to a twitter account (In the case of the Hackathon it was @telescopeia) and reloads the webpage to show you the photo you just took.
It has the following requirements:
- A Raspberry Pi with camera module and network connection.
- Knowledge of python or williness to learn.
- ImageMagick Dependences installed on your Raspberry Pi.
- The use of the Python Tweepy Library for help with interacting with the Twitter API.
- A Twiiter Developer account for API uploading.
The Telescope can be ran locally on the Pi or the Raspberry Pi can be ran as a local network web server if you run the following command on the directiory:
python -m CGIHTTPServer
This makes the Telescope fantastic for having others on the network take picture.
For any questions or help please contact me via Twitter @thebriankerr