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Raspberry Pi By Example

You're reading from   Raspberry Pi By Example Start building amazing projects with the Raspberry Pi right out of the box

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2016
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ISBN-13 9781785285066
Length 294 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Arush Kakkar Arush Kakkar
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to Raspberry Pi and Python FREE CHAPTER 2. Minecraft Pi 3. Building Games with PyGame 4. Working with a Webcam and Pi Camera 5. Introduction to GPIO Programming 6. Creating Animated Movies with Raspberry Pi 7. Introduction to Computer Vision 8. Creating Your Own Motion Detection and Tracking System 9. Grove Sensors and the Raspberry Pi 10. Internet of Things with the Raspberry Pi 11. Build Your Own Supercomputer with Raspberry Pi 12. Advanced Networking with Raspberry Pi 13. Setting Up a Web Server on the Raspberry Pi 14. Network Programming in Python with the Pi A. Newer Raspberry Pi Models Index

Working with the Pi Camera and NoIR Camera modules

These camera modules are specially manufactured for Raspberry Pi and work with all the available models. You will need to connect the camera module to the CSI port, located behind the Ethernet port, and activate the camera using the raspi-config utility if you haven't already.

Note

You can find the video instructions to connect the camera module to Raspberry Pi at http://www.raspberrypi.org/help/camera-module-setup/.

This page lists the types of camera modules available: http://www.raspberrypi.org/products/.

Two types of camera modules are available for the Pi. These are Pi Camera and Pi NoIR camera, and they can be found at https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/camera-module/ and https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/pi-noir-camera/, respectively.

The following image shows Pi Camera and Pi NoIR Camera boards side by side:

Working with the Pi Camera and NoIR Camera modules

The following image shows the Pi Camera board connected to the Pi:

Working with the Pi Camera and NoIR Camera modules

The following is an image of the Pi Camera board placed...

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