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This post covers a bit of an experiment I tried using both our bat listener kit and the cheeseboard (an ESP8266 development board). I wanted to make a unit that would send me an email whenever a bat was detected in my garden. This would be based upon the ESP8266 and monitor the output from the bat listener kit we sell. This was just a bit of fun, but might have some useful applications for remote monitoring... I basically just needed to connect the micro-controller output from the bat listener to a GPIO pin on the ESP8266. I needed to...

This blog post covers the main design choices and prototyping stages from developing a wildlife camera unit. I had seen the ESP32-CAM, which is based on the ESP32 wifi module. It's incredibly low cost and does some amazing things (including face recognition) with the example code other people have written. I got hold of a couple of samples and thought they would be perfect for a low-cost, solar powered wildlife camera which might be useful in lots of applications. This post covers the work I did on firmware design and PCB design for the unit. I am hoping to have...