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Create stop-motion animation with your Pi

YOU NEED

Raspberry Pi 4 or 3B+

Raspberry Pi Camera

Raspbian

A breadboard

2x Female to male wires

1x Push button (Momentary switch)

Code: https:// github.com/lesp/LXF 264-Stop-Motion/archive/ master.zip

Wallace and Gromit, Morph, the evil skeletons created by Ray Harryhausen… these are all famous examples of an animation technique called stop-motion, which uses individual images posed by an animator so that when run as a sequence, the subject appears to move. Traditionally this takes many hours or days of painstaking work. But using the power of the Raspberry Pi and its camera, we can make our own movie studio. In this tutorial we shall make a short animation using a LEGO model, all filmed using Python and the

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