The camera order costed me € 12,- including shipping Attaching a normal USB connectorīack to my first challenge: I had a Raspberry Pi Zero that lacks all kind of standard connection methods. it is using a OV5647 sensor has F1.8 aperture and is fully compatible with the Pi.

The camera comes with adjustable focus and 2 attachable Infrared Leds. One thing to remember that the Pi Zero has a different camera connector as the normal Raspberry Pi’s. Of course that would delay my project but it’s mid winter so I have some time. Need to find a fix for that.įor the camera I decided to order a night vision camera on AliExpress. Since I have a USB Wifi dongle (same drawer) the WiFi problem could but solved but unfortunately the Pi Zero only has micro USB connectors. It has no WiFi but it does have the required camera connection.

The whole set, if I count the stuff already possessed, costed me around about €30,. Since I already wanted to create a bird-cam some time ago (since I saw one online but too expensive) I decided it would be worth a try to build one using this Pi Zero board. Recently I discovered I still had a Raspberry Pi Zero (without WiFi) in my drawer. This article has an update on used streaming software.

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