Tests of the Raspberry Pi Night Vision Crittercam

A motion detecting night-vision wildlife camera using a Raspberry Pi with the noir infra-red-sensitive camera. It's housed in a milk carton.

The hardware is described in three articles:

• A Raspberry Pi motion-detecting wildlife camera
• Motion camera part II
• A Raspberry Pi Night Vision Camera

Test 3: the camera is finally working well enough to capture some critters

• Base image, before anyone ...
• A large mouse or small ra ...
• Coming closer ...
• ... and closer ...
• A little suspicious of th ...
• Close-up from previous image.
• Oops, too scary, run away ...
• Back. Maybe it's not THAT ...
• Just sniffin' around ...
• What is that thing?
• Oh, well, looks like it's ...
• But it's no longer scary ...
• Dawn ... and now a rabbit ...
• The rabbit does seem inte ...
• Ears still barely visible ...
• All gone, sun coming up.
• My high-tech camera. It's ...
• The business end, showing ...

Raspberry Pi Night Vision Camera, test 6

• A mouse checks out the sp ...
• A rabbit is interested too.
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Test 7, using the PIR sensor instead of image-based detection

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All photos are copyright Akkana Peck,
licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC-BY-NC-SA).
Please inquire if you're interested in commercial use.

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