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+## Assembly
+
+The essential components of the intval3 intervalometer are the following parts:
+
+
+The electronics that interface with the Raspberry Pi can be created in a few different ways. A board can be purchased (soon), put together by hand on a prototyping bonnet, or etched from copper-clad board using the circuit board design files.
+
+
+## Installation
+
+With a fresh [Raspian installation on the Raspberry Pi Zero W](RaspberryPiZeroW.md), you can install the intval3 software with two commands:
+
+```
+wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sixteenmillimeter/intval3/master/scripts/intval3-install.sh
+sh ./intval3-install.sh
+
+```
+