A DIY photo booth using a Raspberry Pi that automatically:
- Sends animated gifs to a Twitter account (photobooth.py)
- IFTTT used to create pintrest collections (outside this repo)
- Dropbox uploading (dropboxsync.py run as a crontask)
Based on:
- http://www.drumminhands.com/2014/06/15/raspberry-pi-photo-booth/ - Code - Github
- http://www.instructables.com/id/Raspberry-Pi-photo-booth-controller/ - Code - Github
This requires:
- PiCamera -- http://picamera.readthedocs.org/
- GraphicsMagick -- http://www.graphicsmagick.org/
- twython -- https://github.com/ryanmcgrath/twython
Updated as of April 2016 - Latest versions of libaries + APIs Things new in this version:
- idle mode which checks if internet is back for any files not uploaded.
- better handling of errors with pygame and picamera - should exit gracefully in more cases now
Useful Pi setup in Wiki https://github.com/Jimbles/RPi_Photobooth/wiki/Useful-Raspberry-Pi-Settings#schedule-dropbox-checking-task