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Use pcDuino as Photo Booth Controller

Posted by: admin , August 26, 2014

pcDuino can control different SLR cameras such as Nikon D40 through an USB connection using an utility called Gphoto2.

 

Software Installation

 

The software installation guide is copied from http://www.instructables.com/id/Raspberry-Pi-photo-booth-controller/step2/Connect-the-Camera/

We install in the following order.

1. Update the system:

$sudo apt-get update

2. Install the dependencies library:

$sudo apt-get install pkg-config
$sudo apt-get install libudev-dev

3. Download and run gphot2 installation:

$sudo wget raw.github.com/gonzalo/gphoto2-updater/master/gphoto2-updater.sh
$sudo chmod 755 gphoto2-updater.sh
$sudo ./gphoto2-updater.sh

4. Remove files that prevent camera mounting:

$sudo rm /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.gtk.Private.GPhoto2VolumeMonitor.service
$sudo rm /usr/share/gvfs/mounts/gphoto2.mount
$sudo rm /usr/share/gvfs/remote-volume-monitors/gphoto2.monitor
$sudo rm /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfs-gphoto2-volume-monitor

5. Reboot pcDuino.

 

Hardware Installation

Before we hook up the Nikon D40, we need to configure the USB to be MTP/PTP mode as following:

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After we connect the camera to pcDuino. We can command ‘$sudo gphoto2  –auto-detect’ to check if the camera is recognized by gphot2 or not, and run the following to capture image:

 

 

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