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New Book: Trail Cameras and Custom Camera Traps: Guide to Western Mammals Volume 1

Winterberry Wildlife Posted on October 15, 2026 by Bob ZakOctober 18, 2026

Our next book are out! That means the first of 2 species volumes are available for sale online at Amazon and ItascaBooks! This one covers bears, canids, mustelids, skunks, ringtails, and coatis. Check out some sample pages and endorsement in … Continue reading →

Posted in Bears, Blog, Camera Trapping Technology, Camera Trapping Tips, Dog family, Weasel family | Tagged book, camera trap, field guide, trail camera | 2 Replies

Gardepro A60 Trail Camera Teardown and Review

Winterberry Wildlife Posted on May 23, 2026 by Bob ZakMay 23, 2026
GardePro A60 Trail camera

GardePro has become one of the main suppliers of low cost trail cameras. In this post, I take this camera apart to see what’s inside. I also include a video of the teardown and some daylight and nighttime example of … Continue reading →

Posted in Blog, Camera Trapping Technology | Tagged A60, Image Sensor, review, SOC, Teardown, trail camera | 12 Replies

New Book: Trail Cameras & Custom Camera Traps: Technology, Ethics & Strategies for Success

Winterberry Wildlife Posted on May 19, 2026 by Bob ZakMay 19, 2026
Trail camera book cover

We are very excited to release the first book in our new series on camera trapping. You can buy the book here: Trail Cameras & Custom Camera Traps: Technology, Ethics & Strategies for Success. This first book in the series … Continue reading →

Posted in Blog, Camera Trapping Technology, Camera Trapping Tips | Tagged camera trap, camera trapping, ethics, trackiing, trail camera | 3 Replies

Browning Elitę-HP5-Ultra Trail Camera Review and Teardown

Winterberry Wildlife Posted on March 7, 2026 by Bob ZakApril 28, 2026
Browning HP5 Ultra

Browning recently released the latest model in SpecOps/ReconForce line of cameras, the Elite HP5-Ultra. Readers of this blog will know that we have a lot of experience with the SpecOps/ReconForce family going back to the Advantage series cameras. We have … Continue reading →

Posted in Camera Trapping Technology | Tagged Browning, HP5, HP5-Ultra, Teardown, trail camera | 39 Replies

Browning Dark Ops DCL Nano (BTC-6DCLN) Review and Teardown

Winterberry Wildlife Posted on November 14, 2024 by Bob ZakMay 23, 2025

Browning recently introduced a new model in their 6-series Dark Ops trail cameras — the DCL Nano (BTC-6DCLN). This camera is small and light and features a silent, two sensor camera architecture. Lab measurements show that it operates at low … Continue reading →

Posted in Blog, Camera Trapping Technology | Tagged Browning, BTC-6DCLN, DarkOps, DCL Nano, review, Teardown, trail camera | 18 Replies

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 | 14 Replies

Deep Tech: AI Based Animal Detection Demo App for iPhone

Winterberry Wildlife Posted on August 11, 2024 by Bob ZakJanuary 30, 2026

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: 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

Timelapse Feature Enhancements for Browning Trail Cameras

Winterberry Wildlife Posted on July 14, 2024 by Bob ZakSeptember 10, 2024

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

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Posted in Blog, Camera Trapping Technology | Tagged Browning, camera trapping, Edge, firmware, HP4, HP5, reverse-engineering, timelapse, trail camera, trail cameras | 17 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

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