max-van-leeuwen/Instant-Framed-Camera

The code and hardware specs of my modded instant camera project.

Instant Framed Camera

The code used for the camera and the frame in my 'Instant Framed Camera' project.

More on this project here!

The scripts auto-starts using a cron job, and some fast-bootup tricks were applied.

Hardware used

Camera

• Original Polaroid land camera
• Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+
• Raspberry Camera Module 3
• Li-ion Battery HAT
• A status LED (pin 18, BCM)
• The camera's original push button was repurposed using GPIO pins (21) to connect when pushed to take the digital picture

Display

• A nice looking photo frame 🖼️ (big thanks to my good friend Liisi)
• Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+
• 5.65inch ACeP 7-Color E-Paper E-Ink Display Module (600x448)
• I added a push button (pin 16, BCM) to reset the display, but it's not really necessary

Software requirements

Python3

Camera

• pyzbar
• opencv-python
• numpy

Display

• The Waveshare libs that come with the e-paper display (place the 'lib' folder next to the DISP.py script)
• RPi.GPIO
• spidev
• Jetson.GPIO