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    Build a Pi-powered portable bodycam

    Oct 22, 2019 4 minutes

    Bodycams are chest-mounted cameras that have enough storage to record as much, or as little, footage as you like. Regularly used by police around the world, they’re also a favourite of certain vloggers. Bodycam footage could be anything from extreme (LXF Fight Club?–Ed) sports to recordings of the San Diego Comic-Con and everything in between.

    Fancy a bodycam but unsure of whether you would use it? Thanks to the Raspberry Pi Zero, you can build your own. While the Model B boards are more suited to retro gaming and media centre tasks, the Pi Zero and its variants are perfect for camera projects like this.

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