Activity LED using the original iSight LED
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Description
Thanks for the excellent project. After getting a build working I've been playing around with adding an LED to show when the camera is active.
Showmewebcam handily switches GPIO 21 to HIGH when the camera is in-use so it's possible to put an LED in the place of the one that would have been on the original iSight.
All that's required is a 330ohm resistor and an LED. As seen in this test run:
I pulled out the original LED from the iSight and carefully soldered two cables either side of the surface mount LED. I used some shrinkwrap to shield the connections from the case and used shrinkwrap with a hole punched in it to aim to get the light only going up into the small clear plastic diffuser. A small amount of rearwards leakage was fixed with some Aluminum tape on the body.
Here's the end result:
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
No source file, test, or entry point is named. Start by reviewing the linked showmewebcam LED-indicator behavior and determining how this project uses GPIO 21. Done should be an agreed, documented project change that adds the activity LED without requiring undocumented hardware assumptions.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- raspberry-pi
- Domain
- embedded-iot
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 20/100