The DIY Photobooth with Lighting Control

Step 2 The Electronics for the Lighting and LED Control

If you're good on electronics and soldering, you can do the project with an Arduino following this schematic and instructions in this manual. If you go this route, you'll build the circuit yourself with your existing Arduino and then you'd just need the DIY Magic Mirror/Photobooth Software.

You'd save yourself some time though with the DIY Magic Mirror /Photobooth kit which involves much less soldering and includes the software.

The DIY Magic Mirror / Photobooth Kit plugs into the USB port on your laptop and then it's just a matter of installing the software and hooking up the printer and monitor.

Comments

[rclassy]

Hello!

This project looks amazing!
Youve inspired me to give this a go too!
Just a quick question, if you don't with to have the arduino controlled lamp, can you just buy the diy magic mirror/photobooth kit and not do any ciruitry/ soldering stuff?
Just install the software and use the photobooth kit as is?
I would like to try out the lamp element in the future, but for now am thinking Id like to just set up the photo booth.
Do you just buy the hardware, connect via usb, run software and are able to print the photos?
Is there an automatice feature in the software that allows you to just print the images as soon as they are taken?

Cheers!

[alinke]

Thx for the kind words. Yes you can do the project without the lighting control and yes you can setup the software to print automatically (just after the pics are taken). You'd plug in the hardware via usb and then run the software. To use the lighting control at a later date, you'd turn it on in the software config program. Let me know if you have any other questions.

[rclassy]

Hey thanks for the reply!
What an exciting project. I am going to order the photobooth kit this week!

Thanks again for your reply!
I am excited because I am mid project travelling the country taking creative/electronically manipulated photos of the country, and this will be an interesting new addition to the project!

Cheers!

Do you think theres anyway to replace the floating heads that come with the magic mirror side of things?

Thanks again!

[alinke]

Yes you can customize with your own videos, here's how to do that http://diymagicmirror.com/faq.html