flask-photobooth

A basic Flask-based Photobooth for demonstrating interaction between Raspberry Pi Camera and a Flask app. For use in Google's Code Next Team Edge program. Use this project to highlight how to:

• display dynamic content using Jinja2 (comes with Flask).
• use a button to submit a POST request to Flask.
• handle a POST request in Flask and return data.
• run the picamera library inside a Flask project.
• use timestamps to generate unique file names.
• (optional) add CSS to the photobooth to make it pretty!

Usage:

1. Clone the project.
2. Connect the Raspberry Pi camera to an arleady set up and updated Rpi.
3. Run $ python app.py and open on browser witht he given link from the Terminal, shold be: http://0.0.0.0:5000/
4. Take pics! Each pic will save in the static/images folder
5. http://0.0.0.0:5000/all will show all the captured images.

Notes:

• This project uses glob to pattern-match all paths for the image files.

Extend me!

This project is meant to be bare-bones and ugly. Coaches and instructors should use it to expand to other uses, or more advanced photobooths. Some examples could include:

• Adding a loop to multiple pictures with a loop and the sleep command, like a real photo booth.
• Adding more UI to navigate between pages.
• Adding option to send image(s) via email with another form wrapper and flask route.
• Connect Twilio API to send SMS with images.
• Add image effects (see picamera library)
• Add CSS to give it a nicer feel.