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)

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.