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patrickmoffitt / Adafruit-Feather-M0-Motion-Camera

A firmware application written in C++ using Arduino and Adafruit libraries. It sleeps in low power mode until, activated by the PIR motion sensor, it takes a picture. Images are posted to io.adafruit.com using the REST API.
MIT License
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Questions #3

Closed krisbros closed 4 years ago

krisbros commented 4 years ago

Hello,

I am not a pro at electronics but i do belive that this camera need a wifi connection to send the pictures to Adafruit webpage? Since you have mounted the camera in your garden, and there it is wifi connection available. I want to build this camera and place it in the forest where there is no wifi connection at all. Maybe rather go for a micro sd card in the assembly, and how difficult is that(programming)? Im a new beginner at programming too, Thanks for the project by the way, whery interesting. I want to do this because I want to learn about programming / electronics and I also need a wildlife camera.

Regards Kristian

patrickmoffitt commented 4 years ago

Hi Kristian, Thanks for your interest in this project.

You are correct about the need for WiFi. The microcontroller used in this project includes the ATWINC1500 WiFi radio. To save the pictures to an SD card instead you could use this variation of the same line. You can find tutorials and sample code for the SD card functions on the Adafruit website.

Cheers, Patrick Moffitt