Tuesday, 28 April 2026

Allsky camera - pisky

My build of an Allsky camera, involving a Raspberry Pi 4, R-Pi HQ camera, 180 degree fish eye lens and some assorted bits!

The build is primarily to capture some Aurora as I have never actually witnessed it.
The software is here...
https://github.com/AllskyTeam/allsky

Components:
Raspberry Pi 4 (I had one not being used)

I 3D printed various bits to mount the whole lot into one assembly for easy mounting in the case.
12v DC is injected into the CAT6 cable in the house and then extracted at the camera end and fed into the Radio Control UBEC providing the 5V for the R-Pi.
The CAT6 cable is nearly 30 metres long.

Ignore the wifi cable and antenna, it didn't work out too well so was removed.



Heat from the R-Pi (and fan when activate) is ducted up into the plexi glass dome to prevent frosting





 





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