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Building a wearable camera

54 points by mostlystatic 10y ago

jonjoe 10y ago
INNNOVATION!!
bunkydoo 10y ago
Did something similar to this with a raspberry pi, a pair of 70's ray ban bullet hole shooter glasses and a spy cam a few years back. Just got a cam that let me ditch the pi, slim it down to a Google glass type size, and stream the video to a smartphone
TeMPOraL 10y ago
Any ideas on what kind of powerbank / battery to couple a RPi with for some outdoor action? A friend at work did some tests with his powerbank and his Pi2 was burning through it pretty quickly, and I don't suppose Pi3 will be any better. Also, I love the sewing electronics into the backpack part :).
- manoj-nathwani 10y ago
  haha thanks! I lazily just used a Anker power bank: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00D5T3QK4 https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00D5T3QK4 For power efficiency stuff, check this out: http://www.jeffgeerling.com/blogs/jeff-geerling/raspberry-pi-zero-power http://www.jeffgeerling.com/blogs/jeff-geerling/raspberry-pi...
  - TeMPOraL 10y ago
    Thanks for the links! I guess I need to get myself a decent power bank (or make one out of all those li-polys I came back with from China). I see people recommend Anker all over HN (and Reddit, in particular Ingress players seem to like it, and that says something) - I'll probably shell out for one of those, as I don't trust any of the locally available brands (and I definitely don't trust any consumer product from Aliexpress (components are fine though)).
  - mynewtb 10y ago
    How long until it was drained?
KaiserPro 10y ago
Two things: You can pipe the GPS right into the serial port on the raspberry pi, making the whole thing smaller. Your GPS is an accurate time source, and assuming it has a backup battery, or at least the sight of one satellite it can spit out a timestamp that you can feed into NTP: http://www.satsignal.eu/ntp/Raspberry-Pi-NTP.html http://www.satsignal.eu/ntp/Raspberry-Pi-NTP.html
sleepychu 10y ago
Neat! Did you have any problems putting the bag through x-ray machines at airports?
- manoj-nathwani 10y ago
  It wasn't too hard. The pi was disconnected and put in my camera bag in the black case, so to the average person - it was just some sort of camera gadget :P No issues with the ribbon cable embedded in my bag either!
  - sleepychu 10y ago
    Yeah, the ribbon cable was what I thought would give you grief. Glad to hear it didn't :-)
ourmandave 10y ago
An interesting thing I learnt about GPS hacking was that it’s either 100% absolutely accurate or throws you somewhere in the middle of Morocco. Imagine trying to debug this if you lived in the middle of Morocco.
- rjuyal 10y ago
  Well in that case it is either 100% absolutely accurate or throws you somewhere in the middle of Morocco.
Renner1 10y ago
I am saddened that we live in a time where people surreptitiously photograph others in public without any thought to ethics. I know it's legal and people should have no expectation of privacy in public but it's tragic to see this gradual erosion of common-courtesy privacy.
- hyperdunc 10y ago
  There are definite upsides though. For example people can't get away with illegal behavior so easily. There's an interesting fiction book called "The Circle" that explores the consequences of having cameras absolutely everywhere.
  - mdrzn 10y ago
    Interesting! I googled it and it seems like they're making a movie about it. Can't wait.
- userbinator 10y ago
  If the government feels like they have the rights to mass surveillance, I think we should also have the same rights to personal surveillance.
- broody 10y ago
  Completely disagree with this. How is this unethical? The people in his photos just so happens to be there, it's no different than you taking a photo of your friend in a crowded area.
- Veratyr 10y ago
  From an emotional standpoint I see why this would be an issue (everything you do in public being recorded forever is a bit intimidating) but from a logical/philosophical standpoint, how is this different from someone with a photographic memory? Is it that the images can be shared?
  - dTal 10y ago
    I would say that that is indeed the key difference.
pj_mukh 10y ago
The first thing he did with that contraption is go to the airport?! Ballsy.
- manoj-nathwani 10y ago
  It's where most holidays start :P
jsingleton 10y ago
The new Zero and upgraded camera could be very useful for this: https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/zero-grows-camera-connector https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/zero-grows-camera-connector

54 points by mostlystatic 10y ago

INNNOVATION!!

Did something similar to this with a raspberry pi, a pair of 70's ray ban bullet hole shooter glasses and a spy cam a few years back. Just got a cam that let me ditch the pi, slim it down to a Google glass type size, and stream the video to a smartphone

TeMPOraL 10y ago

Any ideas on what kind of powerbank / battery to couple a RPi with for some outdoor action? A friend at work did some tests with his powerbank and his Pi2 was burning through it pretty quickly, and I don't suppose Pi3 will be any better. Also, I love the sewing electronics into the backpack part :).

manoj-nathwani 10y ago
haha thanks! I lazily just used a Anker power bank: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00D5T3QK4 https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00D5T3QK4 For power efficiency stuff, check this out: http://www.jeffgeerling.com/blogs/jeff-geerling/raspberry-pi-zero-power http://www.jeffgeerling.com/blogs/jeff-geerling/raspberry-pi...
- TeMPOraL 10y ago
  Thanks for the links! I guess I need to get myself a decent power bank (or make one out of all those li-polys I came back with from China). I see people recommend Anker all over HN (and Reddit, in particular Ingress players seem to like it, and that says something) - I'll probably shell out for one of those, as I don't trust any of the locally available brands (and I definitely don't trust any consumer product from Aliexpress (components are fine though)).
- mynewtb 10y ago
  How long until it was drained?

KaiserPro 10y ago

Two things: You can pipe the GPS right into the serial port on the raspberry pi, making the whole thing smaller. Your GPS is an accurate time source, and assuming it has a backup battery, or at least the sight of one satellite it can spit out a timestamp that you can feed into NTP: http://www.satsignal.eu/ntp/Raspberry-Pi-NTP.html http://www.satsignal.eu/ntp/Raspberry-Pi-NTP.html

sleepychu 10y ago

Neat! Did you have any problems putting the bag through x-ray machines at airports?

manoj-nathwani 10y ago
It wasn't too hard. The pi was disconnected and put in my camera bag in the black case, so to the average person - it was just some sort of camera gadget :P No issues with the ribbon cable embedded in my bag either!
- sleepychu 10y ago
  Yeah, the ribbon cable was what I thought would give you grief. Glad to hear it didn't :-)

ourmandave 10y ago

An interesting thing I learnt about GPS hacking was that it’s either 100% absolutely accurate or throws you somewhere in the middle of Morocco. Imagine trying to debug this if you lived in the middle of Morocco.

rjuyal 10y ago
Well in that case it is either 100% absolutely accurate or throws you somewhere in the middle of Morocco.

Renner1 10y ago

I am saddened that we live in a time where people surreptitiously photograph others in public without any thought to ethics. I know it's legal and people should have no expectation of privacy in public but it's tragic to see this gradual erosion of common-courtesy privacy.

hyperdunc 10y ago
There are definite upsides though. For example people can't get away with illegal behavior so easily. There's an interesting fiction book called "The Circle" that explores the consequences of having cameras absolutely everywhere.
- mdrzn 10y ago
  Interesting! I googled it and it seems like they're making a movie about it. Can't wait.
userbinator 10y ago
If the government feels like they have the rights to mass surveillance, I think we should also have the same rights to personal surveillance.
broody 10y ago
Completely disagree with this. How is this unethical? The people in his photos just so happens to be there, it's no different than you taking a photo of your friend in a crowded area.
Veratyr 10y ago
From an emotional standpoint I see why this would be an issue (everything you do in public being recorded forever is a bit intimidating) but from a logical/philosophical standpoint, how is this different from someone with a photographic memory? Is it that the images can be shared?
- dTal 10y ago
  I would say that that is indeed the key difference.

pj_mukh 10y ago

The first thing he did with that contraption is go to the airport?! Ballsy.

manoj-nathwani 10y ago
It's where most holidays start :P

jsingleton 10y ago

The new Zero and upgraded camera could be very useful for this: https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/zero-grows-camera-connector https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/zero-grows-camera-connector