PICOPICA

A Raspberry pi zero w camera.

The goal of this project is to create a simple camera with a custom vintage lens attachment for experimental long-term timelapse capture.

This project is work in progress.

Part List

• Raspberry Pi Zero W
• Waveshare 1.44 ST7735S LCD HAT
• OV5647 Camera module (any raspi-compatible will work)
• INDUSTAR 28mm 2.8f lens
• 3D Printed parts

Setup

Setup WaveShare screen

edit sudo nano /etc/modules

add the following lines:

spi-bcm2835
fbtft_device

create new file sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/fbtft.conf

add the following lines:

# /etc/modprobe.d/fbtft.conf

options fbtft_device name=fb_ili9163 gpios=reset:27,dc:25,cs:8,led:24 speed=40000000 bgr=1 fps=60 custom=1 height=128 width=128 rotate=90

enable spi in raspi-config. check that your settings are correct in the secondary framebuffer:

fbset -i -fb /dev/fb1

Install Picamera

sudo apt-get install python-picamera

Install Pygame

using pip

curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py
python get-pip.py
python -m pip install --upgrade pip
python -m pip install pygame

using apt

edit sources sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list and uncomment deb-src line and run apt-get update

apt-get build-dep python-pygame
apt-get install python-pygame

TODO

• Add live camera preview
• Add buttons support
• Add configurable camera capture behaviour
• Add gui for setting camera options
• How to save / retrieve photos?