{"id":340,"date":"2023-05-22T05:40:43","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T05:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/samtastic.co\/?p=340"},"modified":"2023-10-15T13:44:33","modified_gmt":"2023-10-15T13:44:33","slug":"photo-roboto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samtastic.co\/?p=340","title":{"rendered":"Photo Roboto"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I built a photo-taking-robot for my wedding, because every wedding needs a robot photographer. This one was done around an old twin lens reflex camera with a Raspberry Pi strapped to the back, a lens removed and a pi camera module placed inside. Push the button, and a shell script flashes a built-in light, takes a photo, and prints it out on thermal paper. It&#8217;s based on the <a href=\"https:\/\/learn.adafruit.com\/instant-camera-using-raspberry-pi-and-thermal-printer\/overview\">Raspberry Pi Instant Camera<\/a> by  Phillip Burgess. The camera packs up inside the base for easy transport. And unlike printer ink, one roll of paper lasts longer than I\u2019ve ever needed*.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* After a long weekend at Open Sauce &#8217;23, I have now gone through several rolls of paper.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For Makerfaire Mare Island 2023, the bot was upgraded with a faster printer with auto cut ability. The mini printer was fine for parties, but for a busy convention the upgrade was required for sanity. Now it&#8217;s using an Epson TM-T20ii printer from eBay and the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/plinth666\/epsonsimplecups\">epsonsimplecups<\/a> driver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/samtastic.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_7143-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Pi camera seen through graphex aperature\" class=\"wp-image-343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/samtastic.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_7143-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/samtastic.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_7143-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/samtastic.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_7143-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/samtastic.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_7143-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/samtastic.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_7143-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/samtastic.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_7143-scaled.jpg 1706w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Pi camera is taped inside the Grafex camera. The shutter is held open in bulb mode &#8211; no destructive modifications were used.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/samtastic.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_7140-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Raspberry Pi mounted to vintage camera head\" class=\"wp-image-342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/samtastic.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_7140-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/samtastic.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_7140-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/samtastic.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_7140-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/samtastic.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_7140-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/samtastic.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_7140-1366x2048.jpg 1366w, https:\/\/samtastic.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_7140-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Raspberry-Pi is magnet-mounted to the twin lens reflex back<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thermal paper photo bot booth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[12,24,25],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electronics","tag-electronics","tag-photo-booth","tag-robot"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/samtastic.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_7134_horzw-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/samtastic.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/samtastic.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/samtastic.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samtastic.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samtastic.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/samtastic.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":418,"href":"https:\/\/samtastic.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions\/418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samtastic.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/samtastic.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samtastic.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samtastic.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}