Automates some of the duller aspects of installing the brilliant picam and automates the download of binaries, making a decision based on your OS (jessie / stretch).
This has only been lightly tested. Feedback and issues welcome
The script installs picam in the current user's home directory.
Here's a one liner to install
wget -O picam-setup.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sbs20/picam-setup/master/picam-setup.sh && chmod +x picam-setup.sh && ./picam-setup.sh install