Connecting & Enabling the Camera
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: ...