Using libcamera in New Open Source Wildlife Camera System :-)

[w.robertson at cairnwater.com]

Hi all,

It's wonderful to learn about your work and I've enormous respect for 
the way you've brought a brilliantly structured solution to the 
technically and commercially extremely difficult and complex problem of 
bringing camera support to Linux!

I'm hoping to use libcamera to develop a new open source wildlife camera 
system that will be much better, much more flexible and much cheaper 
than anything available commercially at the moment.

I was wondering if anyone could give me any pointers on what I should 
study to get started?

I've got an RPi 4 and I've ordered a DEBIX Model A, DEBIX I/O Board 
EMB-AS-E01, 3 variants of the RPi Camera V3 (standard, NoIR, wide) and 
some of the new connector leads for the RPi Camera. Is there anything 
else that I should order for prototyping (maybe a DEBIX Camera 200A, 
500A or 1300A)?

My work is as a climbing arborist and my research is mostly unfunded 
research into new minimally invasive techniques to carve precision nest 
holes and roosting spaces for endangered dormouse, squirrel and bat 
species.

This is a short summary that I wrote in English and German:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jkFA-PgDr-O9-nGSgODCUFkukj63F4fc/view?usp=sharing

This is an article with some videos of Garden Dormice exploring our 
carved nest holes published in Flemish yesterday by Goedele Verbeylen 
(I'll try to get it translated soon):

https://www.natuurpunt.be/nieuws/boomholtes-kerven-voor-bedreigde-eikelmuizen

We have a small website at:

new-homes-for-old-friends.cairnwater.com

Will