Make a Motion Detection Wildlife Camera #celebratephotography

Instructables user Doug Paradis posted this fun (and inexpensive!) tutorial a while back:

I have always wanted an inexpensive way to take unobserved pictures of wildlife in my neighborhood. This instructable takes parts of two existing instructables and brings them together with added features to create a cheap motion detection wildlife camera.

This project uses a re-purposed PIR sensor module from an air freshener to provide motion detection, an inexpensive key chain camera to capture images, and a TI msp430 microprocessor to provide the necessary brains. The microprocessor comes with TI’s $4.30 Launchpad experimenter kit.

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