

Your printer is ready! You can now place it into the frame: If you don't know how, Adafruit has a great tutorial on multimeters, why they're awesome and how to use them. If you have ANY doubts, we recommend you test the pins using a multimeter and your power supply. TIP - Not all barrel plugs are created equal! The positive and negative pins on the barrel plug we used might not be the same on the one you will be able to buy.



Tin the back and front pins of your barrel plug.If you have everything, you're ready to prep your printer for power! TIP: First time using a soldering iron? Check out Adafruit’s guide to excellent soldering first! The connection cables that came with your printer.Time to check your printer package! For this step you will need: Push the camera port's brown tab back down to secure the camera cable in placeįinally, secure the Pi camera module in the cardboard frame from the back with a piece of duct tape.Insert the other end of the camera cable inside the port, silver contacts turned towards the screen port on the Pi.Gently pull the camera port's brown tab up on your Pi.Push the tab back down to secure the cable in place.Insert the end of your cable all the way into the port, silver contacts of the cable against the contacts in the port.Gently pull up the brown tab on the camera module's port.If you do, great! Time to connect the camera module to your Pi: Open your Pi camera module box and check that you have: Touch something big and metallic in the MakerSpace or around your home to ground yourself, like one of the laser cutter, a dishwasher or a fridge! TIP - The Pi camera module is one of the most sensitive pieces of electronics we’ve worked with and we have seen some get fried just because of static electricity.
