Project 21: Raspberry Pi Camera.

2023-08-13

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Objective:

To stream Raspberry Pi camera to browser.

Materials:

1. Raspberry Pi B 2011

2. Raspberry Pi Camera Board v1.3 (5MP, 1080p)

3. tp-link TL-WN722N USB wi-fi adapter.

Testing Procedure:

• Set-up a headless pi. Enable SSH by adding to boot, and change pi password using etc/shadow.
• Configure new user, typeset and hostname as desired. Use shell or raspi-config.
• Add the TL-WN711 wi-fi adapter driver to the linux kernel.

git clone https://github.com/lwfinger/rtl8188eu.git

cd rtl8188eu

sudo make

sudo make install

sudo modprobe 8188eu

• Use PIP to install python3 picamera module
• Use Dave Jones streaming picamera demo to prepare a python script.

Link to picamera example.

Conclusion

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