Here’s a simple tip from [Andy], whose Raspberry Pi projects often travel with him outside the workshop: he suggests adding a small HDMI-to-USB video capture device to one’s Raspberry Pi utility belt.

Over the last ten years, I have owned a lot of video capture cards for my various webcast systems. I have built many mobile webcast workstations in computer cases and most recently in road-rack cases.

There are a lot of cheap devices out there promising to allow you to easily digitize analog video footage from old formats like VHS or 8mm cassette. The Elgato Video Capture sticks out for being a bit ...