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No. There are some that actually use the Raspberry Pi hardware, such as PiFM[0]. Others merely use GPIO, which of course can work on a number of other SBCs (eg a Beaglebone Black) or anything with GPIOs. The only Raspberry Pi specific thing here is how it connects to the webcam, because the Raspberry Pi doesn't expose the camera as a standard v4l device, they have their own way of doing it.

[0]: https://github.com/ChristopheJacquet/PiFmRds




Well...there is a V4L2 driver for the Pi camera. Strictly speaking, they didn't have to use the picamera module.




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