Dogwood Apps Rasberry PI, User Manual

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Chapter 11
Using Raspberry Pi for Time-Lapse Photography
Raspberry Pi camera
Raspberry Pi makes a great, cheap, and quick solution for time-lapse photography; in this
chapter, you will learn about setting up your Raspberry Pi for time-lapse photography.
What you’ll need?
A Raspberry Pi (either model)
Raspberry Pi power charger
Raspberry Pi 5.0 MP camera Model-A
Mouse and keyboard (wireless or wired)
Battery (3,200 mAh)
Universal remote (or spare one)
A PC (desktop or laptop) to complete the initial setup
Configuring Raspbian
Install Raspbian on your SD card (see Chapter 4).
In order to enable support for the camera on Raspberry Pi, we need to add two lines to
/boot/config.txt:
start_file=start_x.elf
fixup_file=fixup_x.dat
Since we are going to use battery pack as the source of the power, to keep the power