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I'm far more impressed by Raspberry Pi Zero W than by the original or even the latest Raspberry Pi. I'm using one as a streaming server for a security camera, and also a web server, and its working beyond my expectations.

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Can you give me a brief walk through on how you accomplished this, or a resource you used to guide you? I have been interested in doing streaming security camera for a while but haven't seen a setup i like.

I basically followed this guide for the web camera parts: https://pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-webcam-server/

I setup my pi without keyboard and monitor (ssh only), and used this guide to set it up itself: https://www.losant.com/blog/getting-started-with-the-raspber...

Here's the list of my hardware: https://www.canakit.com/raspberry-pi-zero-wireless.html https://www.canakit.com/raspberry-pi-camera-v2-8mp.html

I'm looking at constructing a home surveillance system, and this look great. Thank you!

Me too, thanks for that set of links. Any links on connecting it up to Google's Cloud AI stuff to train it to recognize the crack-heads when they are peeking in the windows of peoples cars and rattling the doors of their tool sheds?

Sounds like a good idea, although I just wanted something to check on my living room when I'm out.

Agreed, I built a group of waterproof outdoor cameras with the Pi Zero W, that thing is a true gem.

One is bolted to a utility pole outdoors, 200+ft away from the nearest WiFi access point through several walls. It's not a high link speed, but it works with nothing but that little triangle PCB trace cutout for the antenna.

It's nice, but I think you can't easily buy the chips. So still no good for product design.

There's a medium-sized market for processor modules like this, as they're plenty good enough for quite a few applications.

For example if you need a big PCB, cheaper to make a big 2- or 4-layer PCB and put a module on it than to make your entire PCB 10 layers so you can break out a tiny BGA.

You can buy it as a module, but this really isn't the Pi's intended target market.

I've seen several commercial products that are just Pi-in-a-box, for small runs it's fine.

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