Motion detector

The Raspberry Pi camera module can take picture when a motion occurs, so you can use it for surveillance purposes. Here is how this can be done:

1. First, make sure that your Raspberry Pi is running the latest firmware by running the sudo rpi-update command:

2. If not already installed, install the picamera python module by using the sudo apt-get install python-picamera command in the terminal:

3. You will also need to install Python Imaging Library (PIL) to add image processing catabilities to your Python interpreter. This can be done by running the sudo apt-get install python-imaging-tk command in the terminal:

4. Now, copy the code on this link to the text editor of your choice: motion.txt

Make sure you get the right indentation of the code. Save the file with the extension .py.

5. Make the file executable by running the chmod +x FILENAME command:

6. Run the script with the python FILENAME command:

That’s it! Your Raspberry Pi should now detect motion and take a picture every time it happens.