RaspberryPi/USB Camera
From charlesreid1
Giving up on this stupid picamera thing. The ribbon interface, the front cable, the clumsy case, 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. It 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 was there and ready:
