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Jumpstarting Raspberry Pi Vision
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Jumpstarting Raspberry Pi Vision

by Sandy Antunes, James West
October 2018
Beginner to intermediate
50 pages
1h 10m
English
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Chapter 3 Pi Motion Detection

In this chapter, we will be discussing how to turn your Raspberry Pi into a motion-detecting surveillance system. This is simpler to accomplish than it sounds, since the software we need is ready in a downloadable package for the Pi. Once it’s installed, we can dive right into operating and fine-tuning the program.

As with the previous project, we’ll be working mostly from within the terminal, though this chapter will cover how to view the program’s output with the GUI. We will be using the nano editor to help customize our program to suit our needs.

Motion detection allows for more selective and sophisticated ...

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