So because the goggles had a RCA input they could be connected to a raspberry pi and if you had a camera in the front you could maybe make a crude set of night vision goggles??

So for this project you need the following:-

Raspberry pi model a will do.

Quanum googles.

NOIR camera.

IR light source.

Wireless keyboard and mouse.

SD card with raspbian operating system.

BEC (Battery Elimination Circuit to power the raspberry pi

with 5v using a 3 cell lipo)

3 cell lipo.

Now I might be a bit of a geek but I happen to have all the items I needed! So this was just for fun and to see if it worked and the whole unit was just taped together so it could be stripped down and the goggles used for their real purpose (FPV)

The raspberry pi I have is an original “A” model which I hacked to remove the RCA connector (not for this project) so I then had to solder a RCA lead onto the pads left. The other connections are the BEC wires which were soldered to the GPIO pins Pin 2 (or 4) for positive and pin 6 for negative, See the photos. The camera model was then connected to its connector.

At this stage I connected the raspberry pi to a monitor and wireless keyboard/mouse (the Raspberry pi “A” only has one USB connector so the wireless keyboard and mouse work well with just the one USB needed for the receiver) I then checked all bits worked by switching on and opening up the terminal and running

raspistill -t 0

This turns on the camera so you get a preview but doesn’t take a picture.

You can also use

sudo raspistill -t 0 -k -o my_pics%02d.jpg

this gives you a preview and takes a picture if you press enter saving the picture with a file name my_pics + date/time stamp + .jpg

And if you want to take a video you could use:-

sudo raspivid -t 0 -o video.h264

which takes a continuous video (time(-t) set to zero). And saves it as filename video.h264, you will however have to “Ctrl C” to stop the filming.