make a time-lapse camera
The best place to start with the raspberry pi camera module is have a look at the official raspberry pi pages. Here you can find out which camera to buy, how to attach it to the pi, and how to trigger it to take photo’s or video.
the different cameras you can buy
this is a complete guide to the camera, which you can buy as a book, or download the pdf
this pages tells you all the commands the camera can recieve for producing still images and video
In this patch (click to download) . Im using pd to trigger the camera via the shell object.
you send the shell object terminal messages such as
raspistill -o Desktop/image-small.jpg -w 640 -h 480
or for video
raspivid -o Desktop/video.h264
the patch lets you stick these messages together, from lots of different options, using the sprintf object. You can then run the patch using a timer to create a time-lapse camera. With the inclusion of a start-up script you could make it automatically turn on when you start up the pi. With the addition of a battery, and a night time camera you could stick it up a tree and you’ve got a nocturnal wild life monitor. If you use the camera to capture video, you are a hop and a skip away from making a video streaming camera