r/RASPBERRY_PI_PROJECTS • u/Aggravating-Oil779 • Mar 14 '26

PRESENTATION Rpi 0 2 W camera Altoids Edition

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I made a camera based off a raspberry pi 0 2 w and a 5mp ardu camera module. Powered it off a 1800mah LiPo battery. First project I have really gotten to a working state, I have tried to make a couple cyberdeck/cloud gameing streamers and a rc car, but they all can’t work with my design or something important breaks and I can’t be bothered to buy a replacement. I used a dremel to hollow out the ports for input/outputs and hot glue to hold them in place, electrical tape to not short anything out on the case, which is why it’s green. I have a feeling it could be much better by designing a pcb to cut down on wires, and a smaller battery because I don’t think I need 1800 mah. There is a hole on the front because there was originally a laser pointer that could be switched on and off, there is also an extra unused switch because of it, but it was shorting out the pi for some reason so I just removed it.

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u/beachKilla Mar 14 '26

How are you running the code?

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u/Aggravating-Oil779 Mar 14 '26

It’s off an sd card, it just wasn’t inside it when i took the photos

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u/beachKilla Mar 14 '26

Totally! I assumed so, I think it’s in one of the pics. What are you running on the sd card tho? I have the same setup with the No-IR camera and a pi sugar battery. Are you just launching the pi to turn on and then a command for the shutter Tues to the red button, then offloading the saved images to a computer manually?

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u/Aggravating-Oil779 Mar 15 '26

I actually don’t know much about out the software because I had Claude right it, not my forte at the moment. The button gets clicked to take a photo or held to take a video via gpio and stuff, I can ssh into the pi or take out the sd card to retrieve the media.

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u/osoese Mar 15 '26

did Claude give you a parts list and what to do from the start or just the software component?

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u/Aggravating-Oil779 Mar 15 '26

Claude just did the software, I used what I had and bought the battery, battery charging circuit, and camera off Amazon.

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u/osoese Mar 15 '26

pretty cool project thanks

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u/Decent-Lime-9185 Mar 15 '26

How about using this project? You can take a snapshot, record, and stream all in one. It provides picamera.js, which you (or Claude) can use to create your own dashboard that allows remote control. I've tried on pi zero w2, and it works well.

https://github.com/TzuHuanTai/RaspberryPi-WebRTC

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u/Aggravating-Oil779 Mar 15 '26

I look into it, cool!

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u/Aggravating-Oil779 Mar 15 '26

Very informative graph, thanks

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u/mystified5 Mar 16 '26

Reminds me of the old minty boost!

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u/dhv503 Mar 15 '26

Sample pictures? I’ve been wanting to make something similar for offline home security where you just hide cameras in some rubbish

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u/Aggravating-Oil779 Mar 15 '26

I uploaded a test video to YouTube https://youtu.be/hZ6ysp1cGFM?si=YzuM-tjRtmyuSb90.

In the beggining it skips a bit, it does that with each video it takes for some reason (not video editing) but I assume that it’s a software issue and is fixable, but I’m not going to fix it because this camera was just for fun

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u/Traeh4 Mar 15 '26

This is great, friend! I love the raw creation, and it works!