I recently got engaged and realized how quickly the little things add up. Then I heard 2000$ to rent a photobooth that just prints out photo strips and can only fit two people inside comfortably.That's just crazy to me (even though it does come with awesome costumes and props). So I thought it would be cool project to make a portable photobooth, with a sort of deployable black cloth light shield and its own LED lighting. One where you can set in the corner and have a larger group of people stand in the shots.
My concept includes using a Raspberry Pi (I know Ben has already quite a few RPI projects) and the new ribbon cable 5mp camera board for the brains and eyes. Also some decently bright LEDs set to light up like a flash or just constantly on. And a small screen that shows what the camera can see, and shows a countdown between shots. All the software could be done in python (I say that because it's the preferred language for Raspbian and I know a few iotas about it) using the facebook API/SDK to send shots to facebook, or some other photo sharing website. And if at all possible, have a photo paper roll printer like the Epson Photo Stylus 2200 to print the pictures and cut them to standard photobooth print size as well.
These are all just ideas, and I understand how difficult it would be to get python to jive with a website API like that. And the near impossibility of getting a printer to work like that from a raspberry pi (I don't even think that one has linux drivers).
I also feel like if this project is completed and the software/build log is put online, it wouldn't be a hard project for a lot of hacker/makers to build and maybe make some money from it.
Thanks,
Cory
P.S. I am new to this awesome Element 14 Community and if this doesn't get Ben Hecked by marriage time, then I will probably do something of the sorts and it will be my first project put up on the forums. And I promise to have excellent photos and build details and source files for all of it. I may also revisit some of my favorite previous builds with photos and software uploads, or just restart some from scratch.
