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Set your Pi for mobile streaming video

YOU’LL NEED THIS

• Raspberry Pi Zero 2W

• Raspberry Pi OS Lite

• 32GB SD card

• 2.5A 5VDC PSU

• Pi V2.1 camera

• 4,500mAmp/hr battery

• 2.54mm single-row pin header

• 2.54mm pitch straight six-position pin header connector

• Two HO-scale well cars

• Assorted model styrene plastic hobby supplies

Incorporating single-board computers into a hobby such as model railways is a great way for a maker to double their pleasure by combining their passions. In this tutorial, we’re going to develop a Raspberry Pi camera system to produce a video from a moving HO scale model train.

The tutorial will introduce the latest Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W (PZ2W) and provide the configuration details required to stream video from the camera-fitted Pi. We’ll also touch on the model rail cars.

The PZ2W is ideal for this project. Its small physical

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