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The Raspberry Pi mini computer won’t be blind for much longer: a video camera unit shown off last month<\/a> that will allow Pi owners to build video applications is expected to go on sale in April, according to the Pi Foundation’s Liz Upton.<\/p>\n “We\u2019ve sent the first camera boards to production, and we\u2019re expecting to be able to start selling them some time in April,” she writes on the Foundation blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n In the meanwhile, in a Google Glass style contest<\/a> (but without the extortionate $1,500 price-tag — an entirely free giveaway in fact), the Foundation has 10 camera boards to gift to testers who will put the Pi’s Eye through its paces.<\/p>\n The boards will go to folk who “have\u00a0a magnificent, imaginative, computationally interesting thing\u00a0you\u2019d like to do with a Raspberry Pi camera board”, as Upton puts it, to help the Foundation do “extra-hard testing”.<\/p>\n She writes:<\/p>\n The reason we\u2019re giving these cameras away is that we want you to help us to do extra-hard testing. We want the people we send these boards to to do something computationally difficult and imaginative with them, so that the cameras are pushed hard in the sort of bonkers scheme that we\u2019ve seen so many of you come up with here before with your Pis, and so that we can learn how they perform (and make adjustments if necessary)… We want you to try to get the camera doing something imaginative. Think about playing around with facial recognition; or hooking two of them up together and modging the images together to create some 3d output; or getting the camera to recognise when something enters the frame that shouldn\u2019t be there and doing something to the image as a result. We are not looking for entries from people who just want to take pictures, however pretty they are. (Dave Akerman: we\u2019ve got one bagged up for you anyway, because the stuff you\u2019re taking pictures of is cool enough to earn an exemption here.\u00a0Everybody else, see Dave\u2019s latest Pi in Space here. He\u2019s put it in a tiny TARDIS<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Pi owners hankering to have an eye to play with should\u00a0email iwantacamera@raspberrypi.org<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0explain exactly what they want to do with the board, backing up their application with example of prior project work (with or without cameras) and GitHub code or the like, says Upton.<\/p>\n The Foundation also needs your postal address should you win.\u00a0The competition is open worldwide until March 12.<\/p>\n <\/a> <\/p>\n The Raspberry Pi mini computer won’t be blind for much longer: a video camera unit shown off last month that will allow Pi owners to build video applications is expected to go on sale in April, according to the Pi Foundation’s Liz Upton. “We\u2019ve sent the first camera boards to production, and we\u2019re expecting to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7405,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-645599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7405"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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