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How to Build an animal detector with a motion light & webcam

May 13, 2009 07:43 PM

Light fixture made from a milk crate with two exposed bulbs and an integrated socket.

MAKE and Kipkay brings the do-it-yourself mindset to all the technology in your life. Make Magazine celebrates your right to tweak, hack, and bend any technology to your own will.

In this video tutorial episode of Weekend Projects with Kipkay, you'll learn how to build an animal detector from a motion light and webcam. Make a varmint detecting webcam that captures rascally rabbits in your backyard. Combine a motion detector floodlight and a webcam!

Check out the original article in Make, Volume 17.

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