April 2018
Intermediate to advanced
248 pages
5h 31m
English
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Interfacing an LED
Refer to Figure 6.18 for connection details:
Figure 6.18
As shown in Figure 6.18:
- The positive terminal (the longer leg) of LED is connected to GPIO 17 (pin 11) of Raspberry Pi
- The negative terminal (the shorter leg) of LED is connected to GND (pin 09) of Raspberry Pi
Since we have already installed the camera module in Raspberry Pi, let's enable it in Raspberry Pi configurations before we write the code.
If you have connected your pi with the monitor using HDMI or VGA, then you can log into it and go to Menu | Preference | Raspberry Pi Configuration, as shown in Figure 6.19:
Figure 6.19
Under Raspberry Pi Configuration ...