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Weekend Build – Wifi Enabled Bird Table (Part 1)

My partner is a big fan of birds. Not a serious ornithologist by any means, but she does like to ogle some tits when she gets chance.

I thought it would be a cool project to turn our run-of-the-mill bird table into something a bit smarter. My plan was to add a motion activated camera and get the system to email us snaps whenever a bird came to visit.

It ended up becoming more complex than I initially envisaged, and involved tinkering over many weekends, I’m quite happy with the result: