 Dudes, I own so many old cameras And most of them don't even work But I just love the look and the feel and the history that every single one of them holds and it's always been a dream Of mine to repurpose them and get them working So in the height of quarantine when Raspberry Pi released what's in this box? Whoa, I knew exactly what I wanted to do with it. I don't know if y'all are ready for this To be frank, I don't know if I'm ready. Who's Frank? That's such a bad joke. Ah every time I just making bad jokes He's just open the box Becca You see friends the word code command Python are all terms I really had no interest in knowing more about until I saw that Raspberry Pi put out this new camera mod It supports interchangeable lenses and natively it supports C and CS now lenses that my 16 millimeter Bolex uses. Well, then I got one more. They're literally the cutest little lenses. Aren't these so adorable? dudes thousands of camera systems exist So I'm gonna take some old parts and some new parts and I'm gonna finally learn how to code and I'm gonna build a camera That's completely my own. We're building the Becca cam buckle up This is a Raspberry Pi 4 it's a super tiny computer that is highly programmable and Folks have used these to program everything from smart mirrors to portable arcades to COVID case counters and even the hella smart Super techie greenhouses. I mean, these are tiny boxes that if you know how to code can do pretty much anything And this is Raspberry Pi's HQ camera mod that connects right to the Raspberry Pi. So so far so good until Hello Hello from the floor on day one This is this is what it's come to get Not found at its most basic level to take a photo with the Raspberry Pi cam You have to type code into a terminal. Why see the Raspberry Pi cam uses a coding language called Python and Honestly, wait, it's not even about the coding language. It's about the fact that I don't know any coding languages. Oh my god There's too many arguments mean that means nothing to me. That literally means nothing stay calm Becca I mean, there's no camera interface here There's no easy way to just click a button and bring up the camera preview literally on every single step There's a problem. So I was able to take a couple photos today, which is hella exciting But tomorrow is gonna be all about finding a program that I can run So that I don't have to type a code into the terminal every time I want to take a photo basically, I don't want to have to carry a keyboard around when I'm using this camera and I have this 3.5 inch touchscreen that I'd really like to be using instead so Day two baby day two. Oh God, I Need help. So we're reaching out to the IG buds because shout out to all my IG buds You know, I friggin love you guys. Hopefully someone comes through Okay, while we wait for the buds to get back to us on what code I should be writing into my pie I want to get the button set up that's gonna become our shutter button. So a little bit of hardware. Thank God Let's do it. You gotta love a good button Mmm, just like I knew you would the IG buds came through for your girl. Basically you were like Becca You should have read the manual like three more chapters. This is the official Raspberry Pi camera guide. I love her I love her so much We all were like there's a code in there for programming a selfie stick and I'm not making a selfie stick But I am making a camera that uses a button to take photos, which is what a selfie stick does The only problem with this code is that every time I was pushing the button it was freezing the preview So I called a friend who called a friend who wrote me a line in the code that basically Cuts the program after it takes a photo and then I created a desktop Shortcut that opens the program and runs it every time I want to take a photo it's not quite as Perfect as I would have liked but I will take what I can get at this point and it gets my camera working Which means I can move on to hardware. I woke up this morning. I thought Finally it's hardware day. Oh, let's go Oh, okay Okay, buds today we say goodbye to the nk700 and hello to Becky cam But The moment of truth and I'm really nervous and I'm really freaking excited We're gonna plug this camera in and we're gonna see if it powers up. We're gonna see if it takes a photo We're gonna pop one of those old vintage lenses on for my bold X I'm just like taking a moment to soak in the happiness just in case everything comes crumbling down All right, dudes, here we go I just built a freaking camera tomorrow we shoot To take a photo on the back of cam you need to open Tony which runs Python scripts there I've already preloaded the script for the selfie stick you run that program It opens up a preview of what the camera is seeing where you can see the camera And you can see the camera in the background and you can see the camera in the background program it opens up a preview of what the camera is seeing where you can focus and Frame up before hitting the shutter button to take a photo it then quits the program and saves the photo And then every time you want to take another photo you have to run that script again Ah, okay, bud, so there's a little bit of movie magic in that last sequence because when I first came back from shooting with the Becca cam for the first time the photos actually looks like this I Truly don't know what I'm doing wrong at this point But what I do know is that when I just use the terminal and type a simple command into the camera It actually takes a photo of the camera and then it's gonna take a photo of the camera And then it's gonna take a photo of the camera and then it's gonna take a photo of the camera And into the camera it takes higher res photos so I got my keyboard and just a totally normal day out shooting with my computer I'm gonna link all the parts that I used to make this below and If you get those parts or if you already have all of this and you have some code Put it down below or shoot me a message on Instagram I'd love to see what you guys are coming up with and hopefully you're having better luck than I am so The Becca cam would I send this to anybody to review? No, is it as first-gen as they come? Yeah, absolutely. It is. Do I know what I'm doing? No, I still have absolutely no clue what I'm doing But this was actually a really fun challenge now that I'm done with it in the heat of it Not so much, but now we're good, but outside of the software hellscape I have been truly living in for the last week the sensors actually really cool and super capable for the $50 Illegrenia and I mean that that's not even the point the point is I jumped into this project with a large amount of knowledge of camera hardware and Zero knowledge of camera software and I did come out of it with a semi working camera But I now appreciate all other already built cameras So much more and I cannot wait to use a camera that doesn't require a keyboard Oh, yeah, and buds welcome to full-frame This is a place for us to talk anything and everything cameras from the tech that surrounds them to the new lenses that are coming Out to I don't know maybe building something again soon. What fascinates you about the camera world? What do you want to know more about? What do you want me to build next? I? really appreciate you being here and I hope that you and everyone that surrounds you as well and We'll be seeing you again real soon be well buds