Soldato
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Welcome readers to the official Birdcam 2008 OcUK thread.
** Official Blog ** http://www.mission74.com/
In 2006 we moved from Brighton upto Stone, Staffordshire. The house that we bought had a bird box on the garage wall and much to our extreme pleasure the box was used for blue tit chicks in the spring of 2007.
Unfortunately with these things we never got to see the chicks, all we could here was the chirp chirp and then one day they where gone!
For 2008 we came up with the idea of installing "Birdcam". This would be a small infrared camera mounted on the roof of the bird box which would then be connected up to a PC to archive footage and update a website with the content.
Having done a bit of background reading on **** it became apparent that we needed to have the camera installed by January at the latest if we weren't to disturb the birds.
January 2008 - The box build
First thing was to order the equipment. I had seen people selling pre-made kits on the internet for this sort of thing so just took a look at what they offered and via ebay and Hong Kong I purchased 1 Infrared camera, 1 10m extension cable and 1 CCTV PCI capture card, grand total was about £25
Parts bought:
The camera itself, shown here with a 1p coin as reference
The Extension Cable
And the CCTV Capture card
Then we move onto "The Build"
First thing was to take apart the bird box, easily done with many screws on the front, back, sides, top and bottom!
With the tiles removed I fixed the camera mounting bracket to the roof.
** Official Blog ** http://www.mission74.com/
In 2006 we moved from Brighton upto Stone, Staffordshire. The house that we bought had a bird box on the garage wall and much to our extreme pleasure the box was used for blue tit chicks in the spring of 2007.
Unfortunately with these things we never got to see the chicks, all we could here was the chirp chirp and then one day they where gone!
For 2008 we came up with the idea of installing "Birdcam". This would be a small infrared camera mounted on the roof of the bird box which would then be connected up to a PC to archive footage and update a website with the content.
Having done a bit of background reading on **** it became apparent that we needed to have the camera installed by January at the latest if we weren't to disturb the birds.
January 2008 - The box build
First thing was to order the equipment. I had seen people selling pre-made kits on the internet for this sort of thing so just took a look at what they offered and via ebay and Hong Kong I purchased 1 Infrared camera, 1 10m extension cable and 1 CCTV PCI capture card, grand total was about £25
Parts bought:
The camera itself, shown here with a 1p coin as reference
The Extension Cable
And the CCTV Capture card
Then we move onto "The Build"
First thing was to take apart the bird box, easily done with many screws on the front, back, sides, top and bottom!
With the tiles removed I fixed the camera mounting bracket to the roof.
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