Camera Projects Book: 39 Experiments with Raspberry Pi and Arduino

Hands-on camera projects for Raspberry Pi and Arduino

Camera Projects Book: 39 Experiments with Raspberry Pi and Arduino is a practical, project-driven guide for readers who want to do something useful with a camera, a Raspberry Pi, or an Arduino board. Rather than staying at the level of general theory, it moves through tested experiments that build real working systems: still cameras, timelapse setups, video capture, motion-activated projects, surveillance ideas, image analysis, and number plate recognition.

The book is especially strong on combining hardware and software. It introduces camera-compatible hardware, then walks through familiar tools such as Python, OpenCV, SimpleCV, motionEyeOS, and OpenALPR in the context of working projects. That makes it a solid fit for makers, hobbyists, students, and technical readers who prefer learning by building.

What the book covers

• Raspberry Pi camera setup and USB webcam use
• Still images, timelapse photography, and video recording
• Motion-triggered and surveillance-style camera systems
• Image processing and recognition tasks such as faces, eyes, shapes, colors, barcodes, and number plates
• Arduino-based image capture and microSD storage
• Practical use of OpenCV, SimpleCV, motionEyeOS, and OpenALPR

A project-first approach

Each chapter builds around concrete experiments, so the reader sees how the pieces fit together in practice. The result is a book that feels close to a workshop manual: clear, applied, and focused on making camera-based projects work on real hardware.

Who will appreciate it

This title will appeal to Raspberry Pi users, Arduino enthusiasts, electronics learners, and makers who want a structured path into camera projects and computer-vision basics. If you like books that show the setup, the code, and the project outcome together, this one is well aligned with that style of learning.