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Beepy Hardware
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Add a space for the rear case to accept an RPi camera #1

Open sockbot opened 1 year ago

sockbot commented 1 year ago

The Raspberry Pi Zero case has a variation that can accept a RPi camera. Adding this capability to the Beepberry case would enable QR code input for things like restaurant menus and TOTP seeds.

https://datasheets.raspberrypi.com/case/raspberry-pi-zero-case-with-camera-mechanical-drawing.pdf

The ideal solution would have hardware compatibility with a wide range of Raspberry Pi Camera variants: https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/new-autofocus-camera-modules/

57Bravo commented 1 year ago

Like this? It looks like a camera could be added by extending the rear 10mm-ish in depth.

rear_case_camera_mod.webm

sockbot commented 1 year ago

Yes, that's the gist of it. However the orientation of the camera in your mock-up will need to change in order to connect to the pi using the stock cable.

Another design consideration is how to mount the camera to the case-- on the official pi zero case, the camera PCB is held to the cover with clips. I'm not sure the tolerances required and if it is possible to meet them with a 3d printed design. A screw in or slide in solution might be better.