A year ago, I set up a Raspberry Pi Zero to lay the groundwork for a time-lapse video capturing a tree as the seasons changed over the course of a year. At 18 shots per day, over 7,000 images were captured (it actually took over 13 months), and the story must continue.

The Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W has built-in Wi-Fi, which is quite handy—given the lack of an Ethernet port—for downloading the phot...