Getting creative with the Pi camera
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Les Pounder is associate editor at Tom’s Hardware and a freelance creative technologist. Les blogs about his discoveries at www.bigl.es.
The Raspberry Pi Camera is great fun to play with, and in this tutorial we’re going to use the camera with a push button that will choose a random filter for the image. We’ll be using the Bash terminal as our programming language, which is a great way to introduce the powerful scripting language.
Hardware setup
The Raspberry Pi Camera now comes in many different variations, and they all connect to the camera port of the Raspberry Pi, located just behind the
