Issue with Pi Zero in Raspberry Pi Zero W Camera Kit

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Stopped at the goal line! I assembled the pan-tilt camera kit, seems like I did everything right, connected via USB to Arduino IDE serial monitor 115200 baud (BTW, the servo pHAT now uses USB-C, not Micro USB like in the tutorial). I watch the boot up, get to the pi login screen, log in. Then I put in the sudo raspi-config command and the output scrolls across the screen in a single line. Does not make a nice box to read. Typing in a number on the serial monitor after that does not seem to do anything.

pi@raspberrypi:~$ sudo raspi-config 
[1;24r[4l)0[m(B[1;24r[H[J[1;1HRaspberry Pi Zero W Rev 1.1


┌─────────┤ Raspberry Pi Software Configuration Tool (raspi-config) ├──────────┐[5;1H│[78C│[6;1H│[7C[1m[7m1 System Options       Configure system settings                [7C[m(B│[7;1H│[7C2 Display Options[6CConfigure display settings[22C│[8;1H│[7C3 Interface Options    Configure connections to peripherals[12C│[9;1H│[7C4 Performance Options  Configure performance settings[18C│[10;1H│[7C5 Localisation Options Configure language and regional settings[8C│[11;1H│[7C6 Advanced Options[5CConfigure advanced settings[21C│[12;1H│[7C8 Update[15CUpdate this tool to the latest version[10C│[13;1H│[7C9 About raspi-config   Information about this configuration tool[7C│[14;1H│[78C│[15;1H│[78C│[16;1H│[78C│[17;1H│[78C│[18;1H│[78C│[19;1H│[21C<Select>[21C<Finish>[20C│[20;1H│[78C│[21;1H└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘[6;9H

On the serial monitor this is all on 1 single line running out to the right. I’m not even clear on how to search for a solution to such a problem. Arduino 1.8.13, Mac OS X 11.2

pi@raspberrypi:~$ uname -a
Linux raspberrypi 5.4.83+ #1379 Mon Dec 14 13:06:05 GMT 2020 armv6l GNU/Linux
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Sounds like a terminal emulation issue. Try a serial terminal emulator program like Terra Term or Putty, that should get things working for you. Or you could plug a monitor into your Pi and do it from the command line.

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Works! Kinda… used terminal on the Mac and used screen /dev/cu.ubserial-1410 115200 . Output was normal and workable. However, now RPI interface won’t install, I’ve asked for help on the Raspberry Pi forum. getting

After this operation, 751 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Err:1 http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian buster/main armhf libpq5 armhf 11.9-0+deb10u1
  404  Not Found [IP: 93.93.128.193 80]
E: Failed to fetch http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/pool/main/p/postgresql-11/libpq5_11.9-0+deb10u1_armhf.deb  404  Not Found [IP: 93.93.128.193 80]
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?
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In case anyone else is following this…the next issue was caused by the date being set wrong on the Pi Zero (!) . Next, the pan-tilt wouldn’t compile until I did a sudo apt-get install python-dev python-smbus. Finally, it appears Firefox won’t read the camera, but Chrome will. So it is all working!