GIF Camera Fun #MakerEd

For those who have been harrassed on my Twitter feed with tons of random GIFs, here is the post that explains what I was doing for the past couple of weeks.

In a recent edition of MAKE:, I saw this really cool project for a GIF Camera using a Raspberry Pi Zero. You can find all of the details for that project here. It took me a few hours to wire everything up, but it was pretty easy to do with the soldering skills I've picked up over the past few projects.

A photo posted by Nicholas Provenzano (@thenerdyteacher) on Jan 15, 2017 at 8:43pm PST

I used my Dremel 3D40 to make the case for the camera. I have a spool of glow in the dark filament that I thought would be fun to use for this project.

A photo posted by Nicholas Provenzano (@thenerdyteacher) on Jan 15, 2017 at 7:00am PST

I had fun with my camera and posted a few GIFs of students being silly.

Taken with a Nerdy Pi GIF Camera #MakerEd pic.twitter.com/ubYHMBZjMs

— Nicholas Provenzano (@thenerdyteacher) January 17, 2017

I started to tinker with the idea that it might be cool to add different lenses to the camera, but I could not find anything that would just clip over the camera lens the way I needed. So, I started designing.

A photo posted by Nicholas Provenzano (@thenerdyteacher) on Jan 21, 2017 at 11:36am PST

I designed over and over again and used the Dremel 3D40 to print many different prototypes until I finally found the right size for everything.

A video posted by Nicholas Provenzano (@thenerdyteacher) on Jan 22, 2017 at 8:55am PST

Here is a link to my Tinkercad file and here is the lens kit I bought from Amazon.

This was just another fun project that would be great to bring into your Makerspace. Total cost without the lens kit is around $50. The most expensive piece was the Pi Camera. You can tons of fun with the design of the case and hack that as needed and possibly add other features for more advanced makers. If you have any questions, feel free to leave them in the comments and I'll reach out.