To Catch Some Mice Part 9 - MI5 Mouse Agent 1 vs The MPZ IR Mouse Trap
While noisy mouse was going around making a ruckus,it did not seem as if there was another mouse in the house, but there was one thing that I had learned about mice while trying to catch them and this was that they will only usually squeek at another mouse. This meant that even though it only seemed like there was one mouse making all of the noise, there was definately another one there, because of the squeeking sounds that I was hearing. It was only when noisy mouse had gone, that this next mouse seemed to be a bit more adventerous. The reason why I call it MI5 mouse is because there were some days when I would not hear it at all, which seemed to indicate that is was more skilled at keeping quiet, than the previous mice that I have had to deal with. Even paranoid mouse was not as quiet as this mouse was, but I noticed that it did seem to start to increase it's noise level, so decided that it had had to have it's chance to go up against the Sentinel and this video will show you what eventually happened to MI5 mouse agent 1.
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.