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RPi Target Livecam

A Raspberry Pi with a Camera Module pointed at an air-pistol target board, streaming the live feed to a web app any device on the same network can open, and saving a frame whenever you shoot a good series.

Raspberry PiPi CameraPythonDjangonginxStreamingLinux
Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W connected to a Pi Camera module by a ribbon cable
development timeline
2024
team
Solo
01 / why I built it

My father-in-law had an air-pistol range, but standing 10 metres away it was very hard to tell where you had hit the target. I set out to solve that real-life problem by building a live-streaming camera that hosts its own web page, so the target can be viewed from anywhere in the house by anyone interested.

02/ what's inside
01

Live video stream

Pi Camera feed captured with picamera2 and streamed with low enough latency to follow shots as they land.

02

Web app

A Django site hosted on the Raspberry Pi to watch the feed from any device on the same network, no app install.

03

Save your series

Capture and store a still of the target on demand, so good groups don't vanish.

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