I was asked by the nice folk at Red Spider Hire if I fancied going up in one of their fantastic machines to take some pictures at the village show. Â I was totally up for this until I realised it clashed with the date of a friends birthday party. Â Something needed to be done.
So I decided to replace myself with a couple of Raspberry Pi machines 🙂
The plan:
Get the first Pi (pivite-eye) with the CSI Raspberry Pi camera to stream live video to the second Pi (pi-tv) where it will be displayed on a monitor or projector or something. Â Pi-TV and Pivate-eye will communicate over wifi provided by a MiFi wireless 3G access point. Â This will also allow Pi-TV to take screenshots and post them to twitter etc and any other sillyness.
Challenges:
- Getting it to work!
- Video resolution vs latency
- Video resolution vs bandwidth
- Automating the setup so it can be setup or reset without my intervention.
- Automating video snapshotting
- Automating twitter posting
- Weatherproofing
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Cool stuff!
I’m looking at getting myself an Arduino kit, and this sounds interesting:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2021474419/flutter-20-wireless-arduino-with-half-mile-1km-ran
..and you know who I am…Mike in OKC 🙂
Hi Mike! I need to do the updates for this but it went well but the twitter integration failed but it is a long story 🙂 I backed an arduino starter kit recently on a crowd funding site and I can’t wait for it to arrive 🙂
I do have one already but it is in my Hexbright torch ( would post a link but on phone).