If you want a small flexible board, this is it. raspberry pi Always there in a pinch. Today we present to you a wonderfully impressive project put together by Sebastian Staacks. This project uses two Raspberry Pi Picos to wireless button. These buttons trigger a photobooth that lets you recreate the famous bullet time effect from the Matrix movies.
Bullet Time effects use multiple cameras arranged in a circle or semi-circle. The images are captured at once, so one image acts as his one frame of the video, allowing you to see a single moment from multiple angles. This is his one of multiple projects that Staacks has covered.Earlier we shared his CPU stats tracking of his matrix cube and recently his RP2040 Game Boy Streaming PCB.he also participated in our episode pie cast to show it off.
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In addition to the button using Pico, the camera is also triggered using the Raspberry Pi Pico. This Pico is connected to all cameras so they capture images at the same time. A total of 12 cameras are used in the project to keep costs down. This allows for a 12-frame bullet-time effect, which in this case Staacks uses as a transition in the video clip.
Using the same camera helps to keep the effect consistent. Staacks uses twelve 2006 Canon 400D DSLRs with a resolution of 3888 x 2592px. To mount them in a circle, he used several b-stock electronic drum racks and modified them to support the cameras. In his setup he uses two buttons. One starts the recording countdown and the other he allows the user to discard the clip if they are not satisfied. The button sends commands as keyboard input via his Bluetooth and is powered by AA batteries.
Some of the code used in the project can be found on Staack. GitHub page. Some of the code implemented in the project uses demo code from Blue Kitchen, which restricts redistribution of the code for commercial purposes. As such, Staack’s modifications to the code have been omitted, but the original code can still be found. blue kitchen Demo code to see how keyboard input works over Bluetooth.
If you’re interested in recreating this Raspberry Pi project, or just want to see how the projects work together, check out Sebastian Staack’s project breakdown. website You can also see it in action.
