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Family Photobooth

These days I am exceedingly busy, but I am still an avid reader of MAKE magazine. Luckily a lot of the DIY projects they offer use very small electronics like the Raspberry Pi -- I can start work at home, and bring the computer with me when I travel for work.

We have a nice large extended family with lots of kids, so when I saw the personal photoboth project in MAKE I figured it would be great to have one to bring to various events. The Mrs. and I first ran into this concept at a wedding last year, where some company had converted a VW minibus into a photobooth just like this one (theirs had a printer, which I may add to this at some point, but for now just a link to a web gallery). When I saw that all the (actual functioning parts) for this were Raspberry Pi and peripherals, I had to do it. I wanted to put it into an enclosure that looked like a big camera, but I also wanted it to be burly enough to survive all the kids.

The DIY guide is here:

http://makezine.com/projects/raspberry-pi-photo-booth/

I used an electrical enclosure from Home Depot (stripped out all the connectors, natch.

http://www.homedepot.com/p/Square-D-125-Amp-Overhead-Underground-Ringless-Horn-Meter-Socket-UGHTRS101B/100152068

Grabbed a bunch of camera looking knobs and gewgaws from an actual working pinhole camera design:

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:728157

The rest was a jigsaw, black spray paint and lots of fighting with the Raspberry Pi 3 wifi connection. Now we are all set up, and the test run with the immediate family was a smashing success.