Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Modular Pi Cam
This is the third camera I've designed/made around the raspberry pi parts/ecosystem. The repo has all the STL files, parts list, most wiring diagrams. The first one was the custom Pi Zero HQ cam which was featured on a Hackaday article/podcast. The modular version (aside from being able to swap cameras) mostly has the latest software. Recently I added the ability to process videos in the background (ffmpeg merges wav/mp4 files together). The camera uses crop-zoom-panning for dialing in shots with manual lenses. The menu is created by layering images/text with PIL.…
Modular Pi Cam is a customizable camera system built around Raspberry Pi components, designed for makers and hobbyists. It features swappable camera modules, manual lens control with crop-zoom-panning, and background… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites. Modular Pi Cam launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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I've been hacking away lately, and I'm now proud to show off my newest project - The Icepi Zero! In case you don't know what an FPGA is, this phrase summarizes it perfectly: "FPGAs work like this. You don't tell them what to do, you tell them what to BE." You don't program them, but you rewrite the circuits they contain! So I've made a PCB that carries an ECP5 FPGA, and has a raspberry pi zero footprint. It also has a few improvements! Notably the 2 USB b ports are replaced with 3 USB C ports, and it has multiple LEDs. This board can output HDMI, read from a uSD, use a SDRAM and much more.…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Operate Raspberry Pi v1 camera in global exposure mode (instead of rolling shutter) 📷✨ - revalo/pishot
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Using only a Raspberry Pi and an $11 video capture dongle, you can create your own KVM over IP device, allowing you to send keyboard input to a remote computer and capture its display.
2020 · mtlynch.io · its alternatives →
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Many years ago, I made VJ softwares (to mix live visuals in clubs) for unexpected platforms like the Game Boy Advance, the Playstation 2 and the Raspberry Pi. This year, I’m back with a new web-app: Pikimov. Inspired by Photopea (a free Photoshop clone), I created this web-based motion design & video editor as an alternative to After Effects, to fill empty void. It's free, without signup, without cloud uploads (your files stay on your machine), and your projects are not used for AI models training.
2024 · pikimov.com · its alternatives →
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A $50 DIY camera with interchangeable lenses
2020 · raspberrypi.com · its alternatives →
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- 7IMI made a tiny camera with super long battery lifefrom $200/mo▲843
Hey HN! A few years ago someone kept trying to steal my motorcycle, so I decided to make a small camera with really long battery life to catch them. The hardware/software is totally open source, but the companion app only supports macOS currently. (I'm a big fan of native apps, and didn't want to block releasing on Linux/Windows support.) I wrote some blog posts about the process: PCB design: https://toaster.llc/blog/pcb Enclosure design: https://toaster.llc/blog/enclosure Image pipeline:…
2024 · toaster.llc · its alternatives →
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I've been trying to make accessible and beautiful GPIO pinouts since I started one for the Raspberry Pi in 2013 [1]. I've since given the Raspberry Pi Pico [2] and Pico 2 [3] microcontrollers the same treatment when they launched. Recently I've updated these with a new "Upside-down" view to complement the rear view, giving a pinout in the right orientation to match your project. The Pico sites are all hand-coded single HTML pages with supporting CSS and minimal JS. They are set up to optionally install as a "Desktop" web app. They also degrade into a somewhat usable table in lieu of CSS and…
2025 · pico2.pinout.xyz · its alternatives →
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Pi-card is an AI powered voice assistant running locally on a Raspberry Pi. It is capable of doing anything a standard LLM (like ChatGPT) can do in a conversational setting. In addition, if there is a camera equipped, you can also ask Pi-card to take a photo, describe what it sees, and then ask questions about that. It uses distributed models so latency is something I'm working on, but I am curious on where this could go, if anywhere. Very much a WIP. Feedback welcome :-)
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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PIXL▲132A magnetic building system by the makers of the Fidget Cube
2018 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →
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2017 · kelu124.gitbooks.io · its alternatives →
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FFmpeg wrapper providing simple, cross-platform Video I/O, GIF Creation, and Webcam Streaming in Go - AlexEidt/Vidio
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Pixlie▲114AI video studio: text & image to video, with real control
Jun 2026 · pixlys.com · its alternatives →
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Pi Coding Agent▲176A new Emacs mode for AI-assisted coding (Claude Code style), with native Emacs buffers instead of a flickering terminal. Built on top of pi, a no-bs open source Claude Code alternative. It supports Claude, GPT, Gemini, Ollama. I've been using it daily for weeks. Demo video that says more than $NUMBER words: https://danielnouri.org/media/pi-coding-agent-demo.mp4 The key decision here is that we have two separate windows: chat history is a markdown-mode buffer, with beautiful rendering, unlimted scrollback, selective tool expansion where it matters, etc. The input window…
May 2026 · pi.dev · its alternatives →
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Build your own Rodak - portable Kodak Brownie powered by Raspberry Pi - alexellis/rodak
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey all - this is the software part of my cyberdeck, called the Slimedeck Zero. The Slimedeck Zero is based around this somewhat esoteric device called the PicoVision which is a super cool RP2040 (Raspberry Pi Pico) based device. It outputs relatively high-res video over HDMI while still being super fast to boot with low power consumption. The PicoVision actually uses two RP2040 - one as a CPU and one as a GPU. This gives the CPU plenty of cycles to run bigger apps (and a heavy python stack) and lets the GPU handle some of the rendering and the complex timing HDMI requires. You can do this…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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3D printed mouse replacement with Raspberry Pi Pico and PMW3360
2023 · xythobuz.de · its alternatives →
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Modo▲148I’ve built hardware projects for years, and the gap between “I want X” and “parts ordered, files ready to print” always took weeks. Modo compresses that. Describe what you want (e.g. “a portable CO2 monitor with a display and buzzer”) and it generates: - A bill of materials with real components (MPNs, not hallucinated parts) - A printable enclosure generated from actual part dimensions - Wiring diagrams, firmware boilerplate, and assembly instructions - Design validation (power budget, pin conflicts, mechanical fit) Everything streams in real time as each phase completes. The key idea is…
Jan 2026 · modo.is · its alternatives →
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2018 · medium.com · its alternatives →
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PetaPixel article: https://petapixel.com/2023/05/11/the-post-digital-leica-mpi-...
2023 · psychomugs.github.io · its alternatives →
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Build a video streaming robot with the Raspberry Pi and the GoPiGo3. This project will show you how to turn your GoPiGo3 into a video streaming robot.
2017 · dexterindustries.com · its alternatives →
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2017 · sammachin.com · its alternatives →
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