As active members of the open-source hardware community, Bucharest-based makers Alexandra Covor, Constantin Craciun, and Mihnea Stoica regularly post project tutorials for the wider community. Impressive images of their projects are essential in order to ignite interest. However, finding the right light to shine on their endeavours was becoming a challenge, so like all good makers, the team decided to make their own.
PicoLight is the result – a Raspberry Pi Picobased, minimalist adjustable light which is perfect for low-light photography, as project lead Alexandra shares: “Studio lights are great, but they are often too big and too bright for our tiny [hardware] projects, so this is where PicoLight comes in, being ideally sized.”
Small but mighty
Alexandra describes PicoLight’s user experience as “pretty simple”. It’s made up of two…
