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