Ultimate Youtube Live Camera - Adafruit Industries

[Pages:23]Ultimate Youtube Live Camera

Created by Daniel Davis



Last updated on 2022-12-01 03:00:33 PM EST

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Table of Contents

Overview

3

What You Will Need

3

Setting Up The Raspberry Pi

4

? Installing the Camera ? Adding A Microphone

Installing The Touchscreen

9

? Fixing Issues With The Adafruit Touchscreen

Streaming To Youtube

12

Creating An Interface

15

Adding A Power Source

19

Making A Custom Case

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Overview

As a YouTuber, I'm always looking for ways to streamline different tasks. Live streaming () is definitely something that has the opportunity to be a LOT simpler. It would be nice if you just had a camera that you can take with you, turn on, and live stream. So that will be the primary goal of this project: to make a dedicated camera for live streaming to YouTube.

My idea is to make a video camera using a Raspberry Pi 3, 2.8" LCD Touchscreen, and the Pi Camera as the basic platform. We'll also need a small USB microphone to record audio, and some type of rechargeable battery to power it all. Then I'm going to 3D print a custom case shaped like the YouTube logo to power it all.

More of a visual learner? Then feel free to watch my four part video series on making this project from start to finish! View the successes and pitfalls as I go step by step through the entire project.

What You Will Need

These are the parts you will need to finish this project, along with access to soldering equipment and a 3D printer

1 x Raspberry Pi 3 Model B

Raspberry Pi 3 - Model B - ARMv8 with 1G RAM

3055

1 x 2.8" TFT LCD Touchscreen

Adafruit PiTFT - 320x240 2.8" TFT+Touchscreen for Raspberry Pi

2298

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Raspberry Pi Camera Board v2 - 8 Megapixels Raspberry Pi Camera Board v2 - 8 Megapixels

1 x Raspberry Pi Camera

Raspberry Pi Camera Board v2 - 8 Megapixels

1 x Mini USB Microphone

Mini USB Microphone

1 x 2500 mAh battery

Lithium Ion Polymer Battery - 3.7v 2500mAh

1 x LiPo Battery Charger

USB LiIon/LiPoly charger - v1.2

1 x Slide Switch

Breadboard-friendly SPDT Slide Switch

3099

3099



Setting Up The Raspberry Pi

As with any project using a Raspberry Pi, the first step is to get it set up. To do this, you'll need:

? A Raspberry Pi 3

? A micro SD Card (8gb or greater)

? HDMI or composite monitor and cable

? Keyboard and Mouse

? Power supply

With the hardware set, we next need to load the software onto the PI. You can download the latest Raspbian software from here (). It's a large file, so it may take a while to download. But once it has, you can burn it to your SD card using the Etcher.io () software for Windows, Mac and Linux.

After you've successfully copied the files to the SD card, you can put it in your Raspberry Pi, plug in the monitor, keyboard, mouse and then the power. After a minute or so, it should boot to the Desktop.

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The first thing you want to do is connect to your internet by clicking on the internet icon in the upper right and selecting your wireless network. Then inter your password and click "connect". Next you can right click on that same icon, and select "Wireless and Wired Network Settings". Here, you'll want to make sure wlan0 is selected and then give it a static IP address that matches the IP scheme of your network.

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To finish up, click on the start menu in the upper left go to Preferences > Raspberry Pi Configuration. On the "Interfaces" tab, select to enable SSH. Then on the "Localisation" tab, set your keyboard language settings to match your country. Then reboot your machine. Now you should be able to log in from a remote computer using SSH. On Linux or Mac machines, you can do this by typing

ssh pi@your_static_ip

and on Windows you can download Putty () and use it to SSH into your Pi.

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Installing the Camera

The camera I'm using is the Raspberry Pi Camera Module v2 (). I like it because it's very flat in shape and doesn't take up any USB ports. It has it's own dedicated IO port. So with the Pi off, insert the Camera Module (as seen below). Then power your PI back on.

Before we can use the camera, we have to enable it. So after the Pi boots back up, you can SSH into it and run

sudo raspi-config #Interfacing Options > Camera > Enable sudo reboot

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Once your Pi boots back up, you should be able to utilize the camera.

Adding A Microphone

Since the Raspberry Pi doesn't have audio input by default, we're gonna have to use a USB based audio input. I just got a cheap mini USB microphone and plugged it in.

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