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Connecting & Enabling the Camera

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Don’t start up your Raspberry Pi yet!!!!!!!!!!!! ~~~~ ~~~~ Before you start up your RaspPi take the picamera and find the end of the ribbon attached to it which should have metal bands like this: ↖ Put those metal bands on the end of the ribbon of the camera into the slot on the RaspPi that is between the HDMI port and the composite video and audio output jack, it’s labeled on the diagram of the RaspPi as the CSI camera port which should look like the picture below (from 2 different angles) Don’t worry if it doesn’t go all the way in or if it doesn’t make a clicking noise, it’s not supposed to do that Now, start up your RaspPi Open the main menu by clicking on the RaspPi symbol in the upper left corner and then click on the seventh option ‘Preferences’ Go to the last option on the preferences menu ‘Raspberry Pi Configuration’ and this should come up:                 ...

Setting Up

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Materials: Raspberry Pi (RaspPi) Micro memory (SD) card and bigger (SD) memory card RaspPi charging cable HDMI connection cable for monitor Monitor, keyboard, mouse Computer Get to know your RaspPi: ~~~~ Take the micro & big memory card out of their plastic case and on the bottom of the big SD card there should be a slit into which the micro SD card fits perfectly Then on the side of your computer (on the macbook Pro it’s on the left side of the computer) there should be a slit for the SD cards so insert them into the computer Go to the website: https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/noobs/ Scroll down until you see two option NOOBS and NOOBS Lite, you want NOOBS so click download ZIP under the NOOBS (offline and network install) option, this will install the version with the Raspbian software on it Now you need to format your SD card so go to: https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/ Scroll to the bottom of the page until you...