My son asked if animals walk on our roof at night, so we put the detector on the roof. No animals came at night, but a robin peered into the camera in the morning.
(Black path in the cover frame is the path of the robin. Places where it paused are in white or in color.)
, and a simple Mac program called BTV Pro that can record just when it detects motion in the view. There are similar, inexpensive programs for PCs with webcams too.
, set up outside. This was the only part we didn't already have. We wired it up to a cord
so we could plug it into a wall outlet. We added a tin can, with both ends cut off, around the detector. This narrowed its range so that only a warm animal at the bait would trigger the light to turn on. The computer records 5 seconds of video when the webcam sees the light go on or off.
, and this guy made a 4-minute instructional video.
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