How to Use Camera with Raspberry Pi

Raspberry Pi itself already has a lot of potential but with Camera, it makes even more interesting. You can easily let Raspberry Pi to take pictures periodically and send it to your email for example.

Connect Pi camera to a Raspberry Pi.

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Enable Camera through Raspberry Pi Configuration.

Edit modules.

sudo nano /etc/modules

Add below to the bottom.

bcm2835-v412

Restart the Raspberry Pi.

Testing

Take a picture with the camera by “raspistill” command.

raspistill -o picam_test_pic.jpg

Find and open “picam_test_pic.jpg” to confirm camera is working.

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