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Category Archives: Deep Tech

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Deep Tech: Trail Camera Firmware Hacking 6 — 3rd Party Reverse Engineering Tools

Winterberry Wildlife Posted on September 9, 2024 by Bob ZakSeptember 9, 2024
USB Logic Analyzer

3rd Party tools and their usage in reverse engineering trail camera firmware. Part of series.

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Posted in Blog, Camera Trapping Technology, Deep Tech | Tagged Browning, firmware, hacking, reverse engineering, reversing, trail camera, winterberry wildlife | 10 Replies

Deep Tech: Trail Camera Firmware Hacking 5 — Trigger to Image Capture

Winterberry Wildlife Posted on August 18, 2024 by Bob ZakAugust 18, 2024
Inside BTC-8E-HP5

What happens between the time that a trail camera “triggers”, takes its first image, and goes back to sleep? Part 5 in a series of on trail camera hacking.

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Deep Tech: AI Based Animal Detection Demo App for iPhone

Winterberry Wildlife Posted on August 11, 2024 by Bob ZakAugust 11, 2024

In this post, I describe an animal recognition demonstration app I developed for the iPhone. The “MegaDetector-Demo” app uses the latest “MegaDetector” animal detector model from PyTorch-Wildlife to identify animals, people and vehicles in a live video feed from the … Continue reading →

Posted in Blog, Camera Trapping Technology, Deep Tech, DIY | Tagged demo, iPhone app, megadetector, PyTorch-wildlife, trail camera, xcode | 7 Replies

Deep Tech: Trail Camera Firmware Hacking 4 — Theory of Operation

Winterberry Wildlife Posted on August 5, 2024 by Bob ZakAugust 6, 2024
Inside BTC-8E-HP5

Modern trail cameras are technically sophisticated embedded hardware and firmware systems. In this post I give a description of the key components and critical working aspects of Browning trail cameras. I provide this information as background for understanding how to … Continue reading →

Posted in Blog, Camera Trapping Technology, Deep Tech | Tagged Browning, firmware, reversing, trailcam | 2 Replies

Deep Tech: Hacking Trail Camera Firmware 3 – Business Considerations

Winterberry Wildlife Posted on July 21, 2024 by Bob ZakNovember 20, 2024

The business considerations which prevent most trail camera manufacturers from offering customized firmware. Part 3 of series on reverse engineering Browning trail cameras

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Posted in Blog, Camera Trapping Technology, Deep Tech | Tagged Browning, consumer electronics, cusomization, firmware, manufaturing, Prometheus Group, reverse engineering, trail camera | 14 Replies

Deep Tech: Hacking Trail Camera Firmware 2 — Requirements

Winterberry Wildlife Posted on July 9, 2024 by Bob ZakJuly 10, 2024
Custom menu items for browning trail camera

This post will focus on the requirements on tools and a tool flow for reverse engineering and hacking trail camera firmware. It is the second part of a multi-part series.

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Posted in Blog, Camera Trapping Technology, Deep Tech | Tagged Browning, camera tracking, embedded firmware, firmware, hacking, reverse engineering, reversing, trail camera | 6 Replies

Deep Tech: Hacking Trail Camera Firmware 1 — Overview

Winterberry Wildlife Posted on June 30, 2024 by Bob ZakAugust 3, 2024
Inside BTC-8E-HP5

Introductions to tools and flow I used to reverse engineer embedded firmware for Browning trail cameras, and to introduce new functions.

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Posted in Blog, Camera Trapping Technology, Deep Tech | Tagged embedded firmware, ghidra, hacking, new functions, reverse-engineering, trail camera | 4 Replies

Repairing Browning Trail Camera that Won’t Trigger

Winterberry Wildlife Posted on April 17, 2024 by Bob ZakApril 17, 2024

A friend’s trail camera stopped triggering. Here’s how I figured out what was wrong, and how I fixed it.

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Posted in Blog, Camera Trapping Technology, Deep Tech | Tagged Browning, BTC-7A, fail, PIR sensor, recon force advantage, trail camera, water damage | 22 Replies

Deep Tech: Repairing EEPROM in Browning Trail Cameras

Winterberry Wildlife Posted on January 23, 2024 by Bob ZakSeptember 4, 2024
Trail Camera EEPROM

When a trail camera revers back to its default settings, and won’t take a new firmware image, it is likely the EEPROM has failed. This post describes how I replaced the EEPROM in a Browning Trail Camera. Applies to multiple Browning trail camera models

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Posted in Blog, Camera Trapping Technology, Deep Tech, DIY | Tagged Browning, EEPROM, Repair, Settings, trail camera | 14 Replies

Deep Tech: Pictures From an Inferno? Part 1

Winterberry Wildlife Posted on May 27, 2023 by Bob ZakMay 28, 2023

A wildfire is about the worst case scenario for camera trappers.  In many parts of the US, fires are a real risk to camera sets.  This was certainly the case in Oregon. In the summer of 2020, several major fires … Continue reading →

Posted in Blog, Camera Trapping Technology, Deep Tech | Tagged data recovery, fire damage, reverse engineering, SD card, trail camera, wildfire, x-ray | 2 Replies

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