Now this particular mouse could maybe have gotten away with being in the house for a long time, but even it had to make the occasional sound, while it was looking for the food that it needed to survive. There were some days when I didn't hear any sounds from it and this also made me forget that I was supposed to be preparing the trap to get it. The time finally came for me to set up the trap again and I suppose that I should not have been surprised at the fact, that even this particular KGB like mouse, just walked into the trap without too much of a care. To show how little fear that mice seem to have for this trap, the servo on the trap even malfunctioned and the mouse just froze like they are programmed to do, but it then just calmly walked back towards the sensor, so that the servo could then get its second chance to drop the trap. There is one thing I have noticed from trying to catch these mice and it is that they will usually be quieter when there are less of them. I had a check on the internet to see if mice can hibernate, but it turned out that they can go to sleep for long periods of time, so it looked as if this mouse would do it's sleeping during the day and then it seemed to be ready to look for some food when it was near to midnight.
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.