Raspberry Pi Zero W as a headless time-lapse camera

Re:Raspberry Pi Zero W as a headless time-lapse camera by bko on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @06:55AM (#13866446)

Seems like a popular project :-)

I used a raspberry pi 2. I was tracking the movement of a plant in my apartment http://imgur.com/a/hoEwO

I used a simple cron job to capture photos in the waking hours of the day and upload to a cloud drive. Was definitely a fun project. I was hoping to eventually expand the project to include image detection so I can keep track of the various animals roaming my apartment. Also, create a mobile app that would allow me to snap pictures or videos remotely, but haven't gotten around to it yet.

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Re:Raspberry Pi Zero W as a headless time-lapse camera by gambiting on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @07:58AM (#13866733)

I actually still have the original Pi(with 256MB of ram!) that has a camera connected to it and runs a webserver accessible on the local network.

I used it to capture a timelapse of few days:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySb7vu4KPac

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Re:Raspberry Pi Zero W as a headless time-lapse camera by ourcat on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @09:40AM (#13867352)

Nice. Though I'm amazed that car parked on the corner, hanging off the pavement all that time doesn't get a prang! ;) Nice parking!

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Re:Raspberry Pi Zero W as a headless time-lapse camera by geerlingguy on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @07:39AM (#13866625)

You need to watch out for those moving plants!

And yes, this is one of my favorite Pi projects too; it's one of the few where I can show my wife the results and she doesn't just roll her eyes at me.

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