RUHAcam

A 3D Printable Retro-style Raspberry Pi HQ Camera

Bill of Materials

• Raspberry Pi Zero WH + microSD card
• Raspberry Pi HQ Camera
• 16mm 10MP Telephoto Lens
• 2.2" TFT Display
• TP4056 Micro USB Battery Charger
• MT3608 DC-DC Step Up Boost Module
• 2000mAh Lipo battery
• Power switch
• Shutter button
• Dupont jumper wires
• 3D printed case (see STL folder)
• Leather patches for couch (optional)

Schematic

• Power from converter connects to Pi's 5V (pin 4) and GND (pin 6)
• Shutter button connects to GPIO26 (pin 37) and GND (pin 39)

Raspberry Pi pins	TFT display
3v3 (pin 17)	VCC
GND (pin 20)	GND
GPIO8 (pin 24)	CS
GPIO23 (pin 16)	RESET
GPIO24 (pin 18)	DC
GPIO10 (pin 19)	MOSI
GPIO11 (pin 23)	SCK
GPIO18 (pin 12)	LED
GPIO9 (pin 21)	MISO

Assembly

Software

Flash Raspberry Pi OS to micro SD card. Then add following lines into config.txt:

gpu_mem=256
dtoverlay=rpi-display
display_rotate=2

For application, simply execute this script after boot:

from gpiozero import Button
from picamera import PiCamera
import time

button = Button(26)

with PiCamera() as camera:
    camera.resolution = (4056, 3040)
    camera.framerate = 5
    frame = int(time.time())
    camera.start_preview()
    while True:
        button.wait_for_press()
        camera.capture('/home/pi/Pictures/%03d.jpg' % frame)
        frame += 1

Sample Pictures

Copyright and License

Copyright (c) 2021 Ruha Cheng & Penk Chen. All rights reserved.

All files are licensed under MIT license, see the LICENSE for more information.