Camera Station

Team Compute mesh station
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Camera for your Community Cluster

Unlike traditional security cameras which are expensive and has unsafe software (that either phones-home or has back doors):

Camera Stations revolutionised the security camera

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Raspberry Cameras

High quality cameras based on the Raspberry Pi Zero W or Raspberry Pi Zero 2W

All Raspberry Pi Camera Modules are support:

Currently the Camera Module 3 is the default configuration:

There are many non-official cameras that are compatible with Raspberry Pi Camera Modules some might work well enough for your specific application.

Library

Software

Case

Indoor Kit

The indoor reference camera kit has 13 parts.

  1. clear 3mm thick acrylic len shield x 1
    teh len shield will form a base to mount both camera module and raspberry pi zero 2w
    if cutting up an A4 size acrylic sheet, then 15 shields (each of size 80mm x 40mm) can be made.

Mount 2 corners of the camera module to base

  1. 20mm long M2 metal screws x 2
    to mount camera module to acrylic sheet

  2. 10mm long M2 plastic spacer x 2
    to mount camera module to acrylic sheet

  3. 5mm long M2 plastic spacer x 2
    to mount camera module to acrylic sheet

Mount 2 corners of the raspberry pi zero 2W to base

  1. 30mm long M2 metal screws x 2
    to mount raspberry pi zero 2W to acrylic sheet

  2. 20mm long M2 plastic spacer x 2
    to mount raspberry pi zero 2W to acrylic sheet

  3. 5mm long M2 plastic spacer x 2
    to mount raspberry pi zero 2W to acrylic sheet

Outdoor Case

Own Case

If you are doing your own case with a protector in front, you have to becareful the len protector CANNOT touch the lens, so it should be about 10mm in front of the circuit board.

  • the standard len height is 6.98mm from circuit board
  • the wide len height is 8.30m from circuit board

References:

Software

Name Change

Note name change from libcamera to rpicam

Recorder

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ESP32 Cameras

T-Camera

T-Camera S3

T-Camera Plus

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Dual Resolutions