KAMPi digital camera

We bumped into Joaquin “Wakks” Escay at this summer’s Open Sauce in San Francisco, and when he saw the Raspberry Pi logo on our T-shirts, he stopped to say: “Hey, there’s a Pi in this.” He then proceeded to show us an impossibly cool, retro-looking camera named KAMPi.

Electronics

KAMPi is a digital camera built using a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5, a Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera, and a Waveshare Nano A Base Board, which is connected directly via GPIO to a Pimoroni HyperPixel 4.0″ Hi-Res Display. The camera is triggered by an Adafruit KB2040 (named so as it features our RP2040 chip!), which is connected to the Waveshare Nano A. My favourite part is the illuminated push button on top of the trigger switch.

Wakks wired and soldered everything himself, using Python and CircuitPython to get the camera trigger working. He also designed and 3D-printed the camera body. All hardware choices were driven by size, as it’s a tight squeeze inside the handheld KAMPi.

The camera before construction, showing the primary parts exposed; that beige part at the top of the image is a lock-hinged “lid” for the main body of the camera, allowing easy access to the components within

Taking photos

Wakks specifically didn’t want a camera with autofocus, meaning he has to look at what he’s shooting before taking the photo. He added a preview in the software to allow him to focus the lens and take the shot.

A simple Python script pulls the photos into a folder that you can access on the HyperPixel display, which, as you can see from the image above, is running Raspberry Pi OS.

Why ‘KAMPi’?

In his build blog, Wakks explains the thinking behind the name for this project:

“KAMPi is short for ‘Kampay’, which is Tagalog slang for ‘Kanpai’, the Japanese word for cheers. It also sounds like CAMPi, another way of saying Pi Cam, which is exactly what it is — a digital camera built using a Raspberry Pi computer.”

Some of the very first images taken to test KAMPi

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