{"id":72,"date":"2013-02-15T19:10:30","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T19:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicassio.it\/daniele\/blog\/?p=72"},"modified":"2013-02-15T19:10:30","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T19:10:30","slug":"raspberry-pi-controlled-turning-webcam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nicassio.it\/daniele\/blog\/?p=72","title":{"rendered":"Raspberry PI controlled webcam turning system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m writing to present my new Raspberry PI powered project, a simple motor controlled directly from the Raspberry&#8217;s GPIO. I&#8217;m very excited to think about the raspberry actually moving things.<br \/>\nMy initial idea was building a webcam which could rotate to follow a face or an object, but i believe the Raspberry PI&#8217;s CPU is too limited for this purpose. Anyway i decided to try to make a webcam turning system which still is pretty cool.<\/p>\n<p>To do that I disassembled an old cd player, and used the laser moving motor system and some other recovered pieces to make it turn the webcam.<br \/>\nThe following video (in italian) shows how it worked (not really well but hey, it does turn the webcam!).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vjHG-ZGk0lA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The interesting thing in this project is that this kind of motors (from an old cd player) are capable of turning a webcam (which had been reduced in weight as much as i could) being powered only by the GPIO port. Not the 3V or 5V pins, which provide pretty much current, but the very GPIO pins of the board.<\/p>\n<p>At this stage it is of course completely unusable, but like almost every project i&#8217;ve made so far, it just wants to be a proof of concept.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m writing to present my new Raspberry PI powered project, a simple motor controlled directly from the Raspberry&#8217;s GPIO. I&#8217;m very excited to think about the raspberry actually moving things. My initial idea was building a webcam which could rotate to follow a face or an object, but i believe the Raspberry PI&#8217;s CPU is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicassio.it\/daniele\/blog\/?p=72\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Raspberry PI controlled webcam turning system<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicassio.it\/daniele\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicassio.it\/daniele\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicassio.it\/daniele\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicassio.it\/daniele\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicassio.it\/daniele\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicassio.it\/daniele\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicassio.it\/daniele\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicassio.it\/daniele\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicassio.it\/daniele\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}