a diffusion-powered instant camera
======================================== WHAT IS IT? ======================================== Diffuji is an instant camera built at TreeHacks 2026. A raspberry pi zero 2w with a camera and thermal receipt printer lives inside a custom housing. Our project won both the Neo Prize and Most Creative Prize! Devpost here. Snap a photo, pick a mode, and the image gets sent to an AI backend that transforms it, then prints the result on receipt paper. Below are a few examples of some of the different modes:
mode: greek
mode: studio ghibli
mode: muscle
mode: duck
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MODES
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FILTER MODES use diffusion models to
restyle your photos:
* studio ghibli style
* time-travel to past decades
* turn everyone into ducks
* give everyone swole muscles
* put Sam Altman in the photo
* and many more...
SEARCH MODES use perplexity web search
to analyze what the camera sees:
* estimate price of visible items
* identify objects and landmarks
Each request is routed to one of four
AI providers so you can A/B test the
same prompt across different backends:
[1] OpenAI (gpt image 1.5)
[2] Gemini (2.5 flash image)
[3] Modal (flux kontext on h100)
[4] Perplexity (sonar pro web search)
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