Raspberry Pi Photo Booth

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Raspberry Pi Photo Booth ----------------------------------- ----------------------------------- It’s certainly not a new idea, but I thought it would be a fun little project to try out. The main components used in this project are: • Raspberry Pi 3 • Raspberry Pi Camera • Raspberry Pi 3.5″ HDMI LCD Touch Screen Display • Mini Thermal Receipt Printer • Raspberry Pi Camera Wide-Angle Lens Raspberry Pi ------------------ For this project, the latest version of Raspbian was used. It can be downloaded from the official Raspberry Pi website: https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/ Getting the OS image on a microSD card can be done in several ways depending on your own operating system. Touch Screen ------------------- Connecting and getting the touch screen to work with the Raspberry Pi was super easy using the instructions found right here on element14: http://www.element14.com/community/docs/DOC-78156#installI Using the latest Raspbian image (2015-09-24 Jessie), the touch screen was plug & play. I did install the additional virtual keyboard by executing following command: sudo apt-get install matchbox-keyboard Enabling camera support ----------------------------------- By default, the camera support is disabled. To get the camera to work, support needs to be enabled using the “raspi-config” tool. Open a terminal and enter following command: sudo raspi-config A menu will appear. Select option 5: “Enable Camera”, and in the following step, select “Enable”. Reboot the Pi.