Last January I wrote about the Raspberry Pi Camera that I had set-up to take hourly pictures of my garden which I then turned in to a time lapse video. You can read about that and see the resulting videos and code here:
One of the things that I said at the time I wanted to do was to do a video that cover the whole year. Now that 12 months have passed since the first snaps taken I am in a position to do so.
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For my birthday last year I was bought a Raspberry Pi Camera Module 3 which I’d wanted for a while. I’d decided that I wanted to create a time-lapse video showing the change in seasons in the back garden. The rest of this article describes what I did and the results.
As this didn’t require a huge amount of computing power I paired the camera module with a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W.
That turned out to be the easy bit! Getting it fixed such that there weren’t any reflections from the window took a bit of creativity. What … Read the rest
And here we have the very last projects from this year’s PiHut’s Maker Advent Calendar – Let it Glow. Today we are making use of the LCD screen that came in box 12 along with the string of RGB lights and the temperature sensor from previous boxes.
As part of the design of the calendar there are two double width boxes for day one and 12 leading you to assume (correctly) that you get double the goodies in these. While you don’t actually get double the contents you do get double the value as these boxes contain higher cost items. … Read the rest
The final box of this year’s PiHut’s Maker Advent Calendar – Let it Glow. Today is a big box like the first and similarly, this contains a big item. Have a look at the video to see what’s included and check back tomorrow for the final video going through the projects making use of this very special item!
Day Twelve included the following:
Today’s projects had strong ZX Spectrum vibes. When I was a youth I used to hammer the spongy keyboard of first the ZX81 and then the ZX Spectrum writing programs in BASIC. The Spectrum keyboard was particularly difficult as it had multiple functions on each key. The 4-way membrane keypad included in box 11 very much reminded me of the Spectrum. Oh, happy days!
As you will see from the video below we are now combining the contents from several boxes to create interesting projects. The last one today, as you will see from the video, doesn’t include any … Read the rest
We’ve reached the penultimate day of this year’s PiHut’s Maker Advent Calendar – Let it Glow and today it is another non-light item in the box. Have a look at the video below to see what’s included.
Day Eleven included the following:
🎵It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas🎶
Back to the land of lighting today with a 15-LED addressable RGB dot strip from box ten. Like the circle LED light from day eight this has multiple LEDs each of which can be accessed individually to change its colour and intensity. This strip light looks and feels very much like the LED lights that you get for your Christmas tree and the projects reflected that today.
Have a look at the video below which runs through most of the projects.
We’re back in the land of lights again today after yesterday’s foray into the land of temperature sensors. But what’s in box ten? Let’s take a look and see…
Day Ten included the following:
As you will have seen from yesterday’s video the surprise in box nine was a temperature sensor. This initially seemed a bit strange for an advent calendar based around things that light up but makes absolute sense when you see the project for it.
We are pairing the temperature sensor with the ring LED that we used in the day eight project. Have a look at the project in action in the following video.
This project was slightly different than previous ones in that it needed to have a third-party library installed on the Pico to interact with the … Read the rest
Inside box nine was a bit of a surprise – it wasn’t something that lit up! It was a surprise as this year’s advent calendar is called “Let it Glow” in reference to it being all things that light up. So what was in the box? Have a look at the video below and check back tomorrow to see it in action!
Day Nine included the following: