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Welcome to the raspberry-pi-camcorder wiki!

This Raspberry Pi dedicated device was developed for the University of California, Riverside Entomology Department in order to successfully capture footage of insect eggs in remote urban and agriculture environments to look for natural predators of the Brown Marmorated Stink Bug. This program has four (4) modules intended for use: a camcorder to continuously record hour-long .h264 video clips (day/night) and a time-lapse camera to continuously capture still images in 10 second-long intervals (day/night).

Abstract

This wiki assumes the user is capable of accessing Raspberry Pi environment and is intended for documentation of hardware and software components, or for use by anyone who wants to build their own Raspberry Pi camcorder system.

Quickstart

This system is intended to be used as a plug-and-play dedicated device. Once turned on, the Pi will start recording and save videos/images to an external USB NTFS hard drive or to /media/usbhdd if the hard drive is unavailable.

Parts

1. Raspberry Pi & power supply
2. PiCamera(day)/NOIR PiCamera w/infrared LED (night)
3. RTC Clock Module by Abel Electronics
4. An external USB hard drive (formatted as NTFS)

Change camera program

The system uses the /etc/rc.local boot script to check for internet connection, load/set the RTC module (depending if there is an internet connection), and start the appropriate camera program

Build from scratch

TBA....