BrickPi Book Paper Reader

A few months ago, we made a Bookreader powered by the BrickPi which had the ability to read pages from your Kindle. There was a huge response to the project. But what everyone really wanted was a bookreader that could read a real paper book.

Here we present to you the BrickPi Bookreader 2 which can read aloud a real book (the voice becomes a bit irritating after a while) and also turn the pages of the book (we are really proud of this).


5. Building the Bookreader

Setting up the Camera

The first thing to get our Bookreader up and running is to get the Raspberry Pi Camera up and working. The Raspberry Pi Camera packs a lot of punch, there are a lot of options, it’s easy to set up, and the image quality is acceptable for our project.

The Raspberry Pi and the camera module and Camera connected to the RPi.