A really badly executed attempt at getting a lab camera back in operation, even before it happens!

[Cprossu]

So lab, we've been out a project documentation camera for longer than we've been at the new space.

Every option I've come up with has had severe problems with it until now, and I think through whatever drunken or sleep deprived process that occurred in slack one day I was inspired to come up with the following bar napkin idea:

1) I have purchased for lab use a Raspberry Pi Zero W Adafruit camera kit.

https://www.adafruit.com/product/3414

2) We will make a github (or similar) page where pictures, not code, will be committed.

3) There will be a lithium battery bank probably velcrow-ed to the back of this monstrosity.

4) A rocker switch will hard power it off/on

5) Two push buttons may exist on the camera, one to take the picture, and one to commit the current _whatever_ content that exists on the camera to github

6) An indicator light, probably a neopixel will show the status of the Pi Zero W camera, come up solid 'green' when ready to take a picture, will blink 'red' when uploading via wifi, and will be solid 'red' or blank if it's not working.

7) All functions will likely be command line based to avoid running any heavy software (eg gui) on the pi and make booting faster

So I want you to know:

I have no idea what-so-ever if this project has been done by anyone else in this same way or is a practical approach, I've not really looked. If you find something, please post it!

I am donating the rpi zero w with the camera kit to the lab for this use.

If you want to make code that works, or have a more cohesive idea, please post it!

Just having access to a limited github, we don't have to worry about the ramifications of a google account or something else getting leaked

We can ruggedize this thing all we want, modifiy it with whatever we want, and the parts are cheap. There is no glass screen to break if we drop it (yet anyway) and camera modules are not expensive worse case scenario.

If it looks junky and clunky enough, (perhaps disguised in one of those barbie digital cameras if anyone has one) it will likely stay with the lab.

I've never worked with these pieces of hardware together, nor have I ever attempted to create a crazy picture taking and uploading git script. Any specific details would be helpful.