RaspberryPi Photobooth software written in Python using Adafruit Neopixels and a Raspberry Pi Camera.
This is a software and a hardware implementation for a photobooth, where people can create stop motion gifs. For this, people can sit in front of a camera and start the capture process by pressing a hardware button. Then the software takes a predefined amount of pictures and generates a GIF. Afterwards it plays the GIF and uploads it to an online service. To guide the user, there are also visualizations using a display and Neopixel LEDs.
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You need a Raspberry Pi. We would recommend a RPi 3 Rev. B, since the older version are slower and the GIF generation takes longer. Therefore, the user experience might is worse. Also you need the mandatory hardware for the Raspberry Pi: an microUSB power adapter with 5V and at least 2A & a microSD card with at least 16GB memory. Additionally, a mouse and keyboard for debugging. And a LAN cable if you don't use WIFI.
To print the receipts you need:
- an Adafruit Mini Thermal Receipt Printer
- a cable to connect the Thermal Printer to the Raspberry Pi
Additional Hardware:
- a display with HDMI and an HDMI cable connected to the RPi. You can use an old laptop display with LVDS (most displays use LVDS, but you should make sure, yours does as well) and a LVDS converter board
- a Raspberry Pi camera
- some hardware buttons and cables
- two Neopixel strips with 8 pixels (you can use any other amount or length)
Additionally, you need a web server for the website supporting PHP and ImageMagick.
You can modify the setup to satisfy your needs.
You can get rid of the printer. In this case you should also get rid of the serial code inside the python script.
You can get rid of the web server and only save the images locally. For this you should remove the part from the python script.
You can remove the logos from the images by removing the gm composite command from the python script.
You can modify the text by modifying the CAMERA_TEXTVAL_* values. You can modify the timings by modyfying the *_WAIT values. You can modify the color strip colors by modifying the COLOR_* values. See the main Python file of the client for details.
Connect the hardware from above to the Raspberry Pi. Plug in the display and the input devices. Connect the camera to the camera port on the Raspberry Pi. Connect the button and Neopixels according to the Fritzing layout below. Connect the printer to the RaspberryPI according to the layout. The printer must be powered with an external power supply!
Get your Raspberry Pi working with Raspbian following the official tutorials.
Follow the client installation instructions in the client folder.
The software uses PHP as the underlying platform and a Linux server.
Follow the server installation instructions in the client folder.