Question: How do I trigger a photo on a Raspberry Pi camera using a button?

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by warren | December 15, 2017 17:07 | #15378


Using the #raspberry-pi as a camera (#pi-camera) is cheap, lightweight, and easy to connect to projects like #infragram, the #lego-spectrometer, #timelapse, and others. But is there an easy way to connect a button and just use it as a point and shoot camera? I think there must be, using the "GPIO pins" -- any quick and easy guides to do this?

We could integrate this into the preflashed firmware being developed for the #basic-microscope project!



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Here’s a basic guide to adding a tactile button to the GPIO pins:

https://www.modmypi.com/blog/tutorial-tactile-switch

For a neater package, i’d be tempted to try something like this:

https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/button-shim

I’m going to be tinkering with coding something like this myself so will report back.

Awesome!!! We're going to start distributing these with buttons and low-profile batteries soon at http://store.publiclab.org so including a button would really be awesome. If there's some way we could install that standard on the flashed SD cards we're including, that'll make life easier for folks just wanting to get out there and start taking photos quick :-)


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