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I'm done trying to get this cheap-o Pi camera, with the clumsy ribbon cable, to try and work. The whole design, all of it reeks of cheaply-manufactured hardware incapable of anything but the most inane projects. (Hence the plethora of "how to photograph your cat" videos, and nothing more interesting or heavy-duty.) | |||
I ordered a USB camera (1080 P, 2 MP?) from Amazon. | ==The Hardware== | ||
I ordered a USB camera (1080 P, 2 MP?) from Amazon: | |||
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==Setup/Usage== | |||
The camera didn't come with instructions, but controlling it was insanely easy [https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/usage/webcams/]: | |||
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Revision as of 10:36, 17 August 2016
I'm done trying to get this cheap-o Pi camera, with the clumsy ribbon cable, to try and work. The whole design, all of it reeks of cheaply-manufactured hardware incapable of anything but the most inane projects. (Hence the plethora of "how to photograph your cat" videos, and nothing more interesting or heavy-duty.)
The Hardware
I ordered a USB camera (1080 P, 2 MP?) from Amazon:
Setup/Usage
The camera didn't come with instructions, but controlling it was insanely easy [1]:
$ apt-get install fswebcam $ fswebcam image.jpg $ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000
Then point browser to 192.168.0.111:8000, and voila, the image is there and ready:
