picam_getting_started

Just trying to take images and record videos with the PI camera, this is part of development of this api

Using the terminal

To take an image and video using the terminal tthe follwing commands were used respectively.

raspistill -o ./images/first.jpg

raspivid -o ./videos/first.h264

Note that the video plays better with vlc

Using Python

The python script under the src directory uses the python PiCamera library to take still pictures and record videos