How to build a Photo Booth

My DIY Photo Booth

The Finished Product

Back story

Last weekend, I had an absolute blast at my wedding.

So too, apparently, did my guests - who absolutely loved taking shots with the photo booth!

Where can I see the code?

The code for my photo booth is available here:

https://github.com/jibbius/raspberry_pi_photo_booth

What makes this DIY photo booth special?

My photo booth is unique for the following reasons;

1. It was the 1st project I ever built with a Raspberry Pi, and it’s a great starting point for beginners.
2. It takes a “less is more” approach;
   • I opted to exclude features that weren’t essential.
   • The code runs on both Python 2.7 and Python 3.
   • The code introduces very few libraries/dependencies, in the hopes of delivering a solution that “just works”.

Publicity

Since writing about my photo booth, it’s been featured in the following publications:

Thanks to all the above for their support.

Acknowledgements

I’d also like to thank the following;

• The Ballarat Hackerspace, and awesome community for their ideas and assistance.
• DrumminHands’ Photo Booth which provided inspiration for parts of this build.

Remixes

I love hearing from people that have built their own “photo booth” versions;

• Eric built this brilliant photo booth. His version includes an impressive-looking marquee, a video light, and it writes the photos to a USB stick (if connected).

Next article

For the next article in this series, I’ll be talking about the requirements process that I went through when planning my photo booth.

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