Raspberry Pi Zero W Time Lapse Security Camera Arduino, Raspberry Pi and clones have taken over and given us fully programmable custom hardware solutions that are approachable to Mere Mortals. But here we are in 2018 and a whole new market has opened up to the electronics experimenter. Overcoming these limitations was difficult in 2010 when I made the above time lapse. The same is true when it comes to programming the camera: The SD card must be inserted into a computer to make the needed changes. Without hardware modifications to the camera, or somewhat expensive wifi connected SD cards, it’s not possible to extract the images from the camera without powering it off and taking out the SD card.

The following is a video that I took with such a setup:ĬHDK and a Canon Powershot are great, but this setup does have some pretty significant limitations, however. CHDK gives the ability to automate photography and also do things you’d never be able to do without it, expanding the cameras abilities far beyond what Canon intended. I have, in the past, enjoyed Time Lapse photography using Canon Powershot cameras and the Canon Hack Development Kit (CHDK).

We’ve reached a new equilibrium, however, and so it’s time for me to dive back into doing what I love to do in my spare time: Build stuff! Prelude So, amateur radio, electronics and what not have been pushed aside lately. She has ups and downs with that, and lately has had more downs than ups. It’s awful, painful, miserable and overall a wicked disease. Imagine that you woke up one day and your stomach decided it didn’t want to do anything except just take up space. My wife deals with a rather severe form of a disease called Gastroparesis. I haven’t been posting a lot on The Blog lately, mostly because I’ve been quite busy with Real Life. But first, I’m going to get a little meta with The Blog. Today we’ll talk about using the Raspberry Pi Zero W to make a Time Lapse camera that can also be used for home security.

Pi zero camera setup