Raspberry Pi - Working with a Camera

1. To open the connector, hold the ends with the index finger and thumb and gently lift. The plastic parts don’t separate; they open to allow a small gap for the cable.

2. Connect the cable to the camera (silver shiny side of the cable pointed to the front of camera

3. The camera connector socket on the Pi is in the middle near the the bottom edge of the board.

1. Go to Pi config tool (> sudo raspi-config)

2. Go to Interface Options

• Legacy Camera Enable 

3. Reboot (>reboot)

4. On the command-line window (Ctrl-Alt-t) 

> cd /home/pi/Desktop

• Take a test image 

>raspistill -o test.jpg

• Take a test video 

>raspivid -o testvideo.h264 -t 5000