Turn your Raspberry Pi into a Flickr upload machine

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by Sindy Cator on June 14, 2016 at 9:08 am

Posted In: Around the Web, DIY, flickr, Gadgets, photos, raspberry pi

In March, Flickr lost a lot of love among its fans when it began charging $5.99 a month for the ability to automatically upload photos from the desktop. That’s a bummer for those who enjoy the Yahoo-owned service and its free 1TB of storage space. But if you’re keen on beating the system and getting your photos into the cloud without shelling out for Flickr’s Pro plan, this Raspberry Pi project is for you. Developer Eduardo Balsa’s Flickrup utilizes a Python script to automatically upload images from a USB drive or storage card to your account, with viewing rights set…