To Catch Some Mice Part 7 - Baby Thug Mouse vs The MPZ IR Mouse Trap
This recording does not include any footage of the mouse going into the trao, because I was having a hard time getting the Rasperry Pi Zero to record and the mouse just literally walked straight into the trap, so I only managed to get a recording of when the mouse had already been caught. If I had been using a manufacturers trap, then I would have had more than enough time to get the camera ready, while the mouse was investigating the trap, but the mice seem ti be so eager to jump into my trap, that I now have to take my camera preparation more seriously. I called this mouse Baby Thug Mouse, because it seemed to have no problem with headbutting the inside of the trap, while it was making it's various attempts to escape. You'll notice in the video that there was also a meal break, when I noticed that the mouse seemed to want to eat some of the bait, so I stopped so that the movement of the trap wouldn't disturb it while it was trying to eat.
I am using a raspberry pi to capture the infra red video and I am using the raspberry pi ssh service to tunnel the video stream, from raspivid to my main pc. I am running a minimal Raspbian on the Raspberry pi and I am using an infra red camera that I bought from Ebay. The Trap is powered by an Arduino nano with nrf24l01 wireless radio, which can be used to trigger the trap remotely, but the remote trigger was not needed in this video. I am running the Arduino nano rf24 library on the microcontroller, to transfer the sensor data when I was first running it, while I was trying out the various ways to detect the mouse.