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  1. charlsagente revised this gist Aug 11, 2019. 1 changed file with 14 additions and 2 deletions.
    16 changes: 14 additions & 2 deletions camera.py
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    # Take still pictures with Python

    from picamera import PiCamera
    from time import sleep

    camera = PiCamera()
    camera.rotation = 180 # You can rotate the image by 90, 180 or 270 degrees
    camera.start_preview() # Make the camera preview

    for i in range(5):
    sleep(5) # The camera should take one picture every five seconds.
    camera.capture('/home/pi/image%s.jpg' % i)
    camera.stop_preview()
    camera.capture('/home/pi/Desktop/image%s.jpg' % i)
    camera.stop_preview()


    # Recording video with Python

    camera.start_preview()
    camera.start_recording('/home/pi/Desktop/video.h264')
    sleep(5)
    camera.stop_recording()
    camera.stop_preview()
  2. charlsagente created this gist Aug 11, 2019.
    10 changes: 10 additions & 0 deletions camera.py
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    from picamera import PiCamera
    from time import sleep

    camera = PiCamera()
    camera.rotation = 180 # You can rotate the image by 90, 180 or 270 degrees
    camera.start_preview() # Make the camera preview
    for i in range(5):
    sleep(5) # The camera should take one picture every five seconds.
    camera.capture('/home/pi/image%s.jpg' % i)
    camera.stop_preview()