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Smart Internet of Things Projects

You're reading from   Smart Internet of Things Projects Discover how to build your own smart Internet of Things projects and bring a new degree of interconnectivity to your world

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786466518
Length 258 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Agus Kurniawan Agus Kurniawan
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Table of Contents (8) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Making Your IoT Project Smart 2. Decision System for IoT Projects FREE CHAPTER 3. Building Your Own Machine Vision 4. Making Your Own Autonomous Car Robot 5. Building Voice Technology on IoT Projects 6. Building Data Science-based Cloud for IoT Projects Index

Working with camera modules


In this section, we explore various camera modules for the Raspberry Pi board. There are many camera models that fit your projects. Camera modules can be reviewed based on what kind of Raspberry Pi interface is used to attach the modules.

Let's explore.

Camera modules based on the CSI interface

The Raspberry Pi camera is the official camera board released by the Raspberry Pi Foundation. This camera can be attached to the Raspberry Pi board through the CSI interface. The Raspberry Pi Foundation also provides another camera model, the Raspberry Pi NoIR Camera. This can work in low light (twilight) environments. A form of Raspberry Pi Camera v2 and NoIR camera v2 can been seen in the following figure:

These modules are official camera devices for Raspberry Pi. To use a camera over the CSI interface, we should enable it on Raspbian. You can configure it using the raspi-config tool. Just type command on the Raspberry Pi terminal.

$ sudo raspi-config

After execution, you...

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