Physical Hardware & Smart Gadgets · Stretch
The camera that knows what walked past
Movement wakes it, it takes the picture, and it works out what animal it is before you ever see the photograph. It sleeps the rest of the time so a battery lasts weeks.
- Parts
- $80
- Effort
- 9 days
You end up withA weatherproof camera and a sorted album of what actually visited.
What you will use
- Raspberry Pi Camera Module 3
- Pi Zero 2 W
- Image model
- Deep sleep
Grounded in
Raspberry Pi Camera Module 3$25 for the standard module, direct from Raspberry Pi. Autofocus matters here: a trail camera that focuses on the wrong thing produces a folder of blur.
Enroll and build this — $950
You make the real choice at the end of week one.