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==Raspberry Pi Timelapse Photo==

===Software===

Since I hadn't connected my Pi to the net in a while, the first thing I did was to update the package manager:

<pre>
sudo apt-get update
</pre>

Next, I upgraded the operating system:

<pre>
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
</pre>

With all of the updating and upgrading out of the way, I moved on to the actual Raspberry Pi camera itself. There is a Python module to control the Pi camera, available through aptitude:

<pre>
sudo apt-get install python-picamera python-picamera-docs
</pre>

However, I was still not able to use my camera, because I had to run the Raspberry Pi configuration program. To run it:

<pre>
sudo raspi-config
</pre>

You enable the Raspberry Pi camera in the configuration menu.

===Setup===

The setup I had used one of [http://www.adafruit.com/products/1367 these] as the camera. This is a whopping 5 MP, which is as good as a point-and-shoot, except it's extremely tiny. I was able to get it hooked up to my Raspberry Pi and working just fine with the above steps.

You can use Python code to trigger the camera to take a picture, and you can specify a filename to save to. Here's a quick script I hacked together to take a picture every 2 seconds, and save it to sequentially-numbered files (0001.jpg, 0002.jpg, etc.):

<source lang="python">
# pic.py

import picamera
import time

camera = picamera.PiCamera()

i = 0
while True:

filename = "%04d.jpg"%(i)

camera.capture(filename)
print "Saving photo to %s"%(filename)

i += 1
time.sleep(2)

</source>

To run this, I use screen. I log in remotely, then run the <code>screen</code> command. In that screen I run <code>python pic.py</code>. It will print out as it progresses. Running it with screen allows you to disconnect and leave the Pi unattended.

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