Deep Tech: Trail Camera Firmware Hacking 5 — Trigger to Image Capture
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
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 →
Deep Tech: Trail Camera Firmware Hacking 4 — Theory of Operation
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 →
Gasket for External Power Connector on Browning Trail Cameras
I describe a simple flexible boot I designed to keep water out of the external power connector in some Browning Trail cameras. The boot fits over the coaxial barrel connector of the Browning external battery supply (BTC-XB).
Continue reading →Deep Tech: Hacking Trail Camera Firmware 3 – Business Considerations
The business considerations which prevent most trail camera manufacturers from offering customized firmware. Part 3 of series on reverse engineering Browning trail cameras
Continue reading →Timelapse Feature Enhancements for Browning Trail Cameras
In this post, I describe several enhancements I have added to the Browning Timelapse mode to enable a broader set of applications. These enhancements are available for Browning Edge, Elite-HP4, and Elite-HP5 trail cameras
Continue reading →Deep Tech: Hacking Trail Camera Firmware 2 — Requirements
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.
Continue reading →Deep Tech: Hacking Trail Camera Firmware 1 — Overview
Introductions to tools and flow I used to reverse engineer embedded firmware for Browning trail cameras, and to introduce new functions.
Continue reading →Repairing Browning Trail Camera that Won’t Trigger
A friend’s trail camera stopped triggering. Here’s how I figured out what was wrong, and how I fixed it.
Continue reading →Deep Tech: Repairing EEPROM in Browning Trail Cameras
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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