What it is

A fleet of still photography cameras capable of fully automated shooting and downloading of photographs of rocket launches at SpaceX.

Combining regular DSLRs with a Raspberry Pi, custom enclosures, a central Linux brain, and a nation-wide virtual network, I designed, coded and built the entire fleet. It allowed for full automation of a variety of photo-related tasks, plus on-demand requests from any computer on the network: no special software needed. It’s all based exclusively on HTTP GET requests with query strings.

All program logic on the units, as well as the central VM, is written in Python.