Raspberry Pi Camera setup - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

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easy

Complete the code to import the Raspberry Pi camera module library.

Raspberry Pi

from picamera import [1]

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ACamera

BPiCamera

CRaspberryCamera

DCameraModule

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💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using incorrect class names like 'Camera' or 'RaspberryCamera'.

Forgetting to import the camera class.

The correct class to control the Raspberry Pi camera is PiCamera.

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medium

Complete the code to create a camera object.

Raspberry Pi

camera = [1]()

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APiCamera

BRaspberryPiCamera

CCamera

DCameraModule

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💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Trying to instantiate a class that was not imported.

Using wrong class names.

You create a camera object by calling PiCamera().

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hard

Fix the error in the code to capture an image and save it as 'image.jpg'.

Raspberry Pi

camera.capture([1])

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A'image.jpg'

B'photo.jpg'

C'picture.bmp'

D'image.png'

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💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using wrong file extensions like '.png' or '.bmp'.

Not using quotes around the filename.

The filename must be a string with the desired image name and extension. Here, 'image.jpg' is correct.

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hard

Fill both blanks to set the camera resolution to 1024x768.

Raspberry Pi

camera.resolution = ([1], [2])

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A1024

B768

C640

D480

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💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Swapping width and height values.

Using incorrect resolution numbers.

The resolution is set as a tuple of width and height. Here, width is 1024 and height is 768.

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hard

Fill all three blanks to start the camera preview, wait 5 seconds, then stop the preview.

Raspberry Pi

camera.[1]()
time.sleep([2])
camera.[3]()

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Astart_preview

B5

Cstop_preview

Dpreview_start

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💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using wrong method names like 'preview_start'.

Forgetting to import time module for sleep.

Using wrong sleep duration.

You start the preview with start_preview(), wait 5 seconds using time.sleep(5), then stop the preview with stop_preview().