Capture images and video with Picamzero

Les Pounder rarely smiles for the camera, but by using Picamzero we may have just turned that frown upside down…

YOU’LL NEED • A Pi 3,4 or 5• Pi Camera 1 or 2 (not 3)• PIR sensor• 3x F2F jumper wires• Code: https://bit. ly/lxf324code Using the Raspberry Pi camera isn’t too difficult, but many of us are experienced coders. What if we were new to coding and to the Raspberry Pi camera, or perhaps a child in school? Could we handle rpicam apps and Picamera2? Chances are we couldn’t, so Raspberry Pi has released Picamzero (tinyurl.com/APC543picam), a simple Python module that follows GPIO Zero, and GUI Zero. Picamzero offers an easier-to-use interface that may not have all of the features of the other modules, but it has enough to get the job done. Set up the Pi Camera Picamzero does not have any means to autofocus the camera, so it…

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