Peek-a-Thief

Overview

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We have several ideas of how we could do the sensor detection (touch pads, lasers, or weight-scales). Our primary source of help would be in Arduino and knowledge about how social media websites collect data.

Team Members

Michael Pichardo & Derick Speltz Will Luer

Objectives

Sense an animal that comes into our enclosure and and send a signal to camera to automatically take a picture of the animal and hopefully share our media via internet.

Challenges

Design Enclosure. Box structure, Sensor placement, camera angle. Study Squirrel Behavior with food, diet, to optimize use of our structure. Construction: Build Enclosure. Box Enclosure with open side and mesh roof (blocks leaves, twigs etc.) from falling inside. Hardware: Test sensors to see if they work. Place sensors into box after having it already connected to Raspberry Pi and calibrate sensors. Software: Learn Python language of Raspberry Pi, Learn to share our media with cute message. Safety: Fire safety, no harm will be done to squirrel, just giving food and taking pictures. Privacy: