DIY: A Raspberry Pi Photo Booth You Use with Your Own Smartphone
Design technologist Roo Williams was recently tasked with creating a better way to capture corporate employee headshots. What he came up with is a Raspberry Pi-powered mobile photo booth that’s controlled entirely through the subject’s smartphone through a special website. He calls it the “Pi-Booth.”
Instead of adding a keyboard or a touchscreen to the booth for the subject to enter their personal information for company records, Williams decided to put all the system controls in a website that people can visit and use through their phones.
“There is something quite fun about pressing a digital button on a smartphone and getting physical feedback (in the form of the flash),” Williams writes. “Smartphone as democratic remote control still fascinates me.”
After a subject presses the “shutter button” on the website with their phone, the photo booth will flash, snap a photo, and display the resulting image on the phone and the booth’s screen.
The user can therefore use the booth to update their official company portrait at any time they wish.
Here’s a short video showing how the system works:
You can find more technical details of this DIY photo booth over on Williams’ Github page.
(via Roo Williams via Hackaday)
Image credits: Photographs by Roo Williams