Rugged RPi Camera case

Amazing video. I can see why you wanted it protected and ruggedized!

I couldn't see the video embedded just yet (I believe it may take a while to process, especially with a high-res format), so I used the dailymotion link.

Was it battery-powered, and was it strapped to a lamp-post or something, to log to SD card?

It's setup as passive PoE, 12v ish down the two unused pairs and a local switching regulator to provide 5v to the Pi.

video saved over nfs to a 2TB drive.  unfortunately the raspivid app seems to have some problems running under screen, when you exited the parent terminal screen was started from the Pi would reboot. Even just running raspivid in the background with '&' is unreliable so I really wasn't sure I'd caught it.  I have several bits of video that ended early and even just a loop in a shell script to keep restarting it appeared to cause the Pi to reset at some point.

Not a lamp post, but a bracket bolted to the outside of my window..  As you can guess, that was well inside the evacuation zone. So me sat much further back trying to stop it rebooting while using a 3G connection was somewhat frustrating.  Thankfully it was rebooting rather than locking up, if it had locked up there would have been nothing I could do.

I cropped a few mins off the start of the video, but where it ends is due to another reboot. I thing something like 20-25mins was the max I got without a reboot. Still, worth it in the end

Wow, what a test subject!

I too had to use the dailymotion link, as the embedding here doesn't work for me either.

Was it deliberately shot with the camera on its side?  I watched it with the sky on the left of the frame.

Morgaine Dinova wrote:

 

Was it deliberately shot with the camera on its side?  I watched it with the sky on the left of the frame.

Yep, distance vs the field of view of the standard lens meant it was the only way.  That's widescreen for you too, I'd probably have got about a third of the block being demolished and most of an empty street the other way.  It's also a bit odd.. take a 1920x1080 still image with it and the field of view is different from 1920x1080 video

When I was building the case I gave myself the option to mount the camera either horizontally or vertically anyway, so not a huge problem for other uses

No surprise though that when you look in the camera section of the RPF forum there's lots of people with creative mods to get different / better lenses.

Selsinork

Great video.

The building looks better than half the ones they knocked down in Christchurch, inc a few that they are removing because they don't fit the current plan.

I like your case and mounting, as my project is to shove it up on the skifield, which obviously has all sorts of unpleasant weather,

Luckily its mainly stills we want to send back over wireless.

I do need to add a controller to control the solar and start it up and shut it down at the end of the day.

Mark

http://gizmodo.com/5915888/an-important-psa-on-why-you-should-never-shoot-videos-vertically

I thought the trashy mirror photo article was good.

Mark

Reminds me of these:

http://www.element14.com/community/blogs/pdp7/2013/05/31/boring-commute-my-favorite-engineering-open-source-podcasts

http://www.element14.com/community/blogs/pdp7/2013/05/24/my-t-shirt-for-this-tgif-spacewar

thankfully he doesn't have the same cleavage.

Because they are a photo, he's allowed the portrait mode.....

coder27 wrote:

 

http://gizmodo.com/5915888/an-important-psa-on-why-you-should-never-shoot-videos-vertically

While I don't disagree on the annoying part, a lot of the rest of that is just nonesense.

Anyway, here's a composite of approximately the same position, one horizontally, one vertically.

So how would you solve that problem ?