My Naturewatch Wildlife Camera

by Pimoroni

We've teamed up with My Naturewatch to provide the components you'll need to build your very own Naturewatch Wildlife Camera powered by Raspberry Pi!

The Naturewatch wildlife camera uses computer vision to take pictures when it sees movement. When set out with a bit of food, you can capture images of birds, squirrels, foxes, badgers…

On the My Naturewatch Website you will find instructions to build the device using these components. It is inexpensive and easy to make at home or in schools, clubs, naturewatching groups or makerspaces.

My Naturewatch is a collaborative design research project between the Interaction Research Studio at Goldsmiths University and the Design Products Programme at the Royal College of Art, funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.

They are designing digital devices to collect visual and audio content about wildlife around the UK to promote positive engagements with nature (and technology). My Naturewatch Cam is only the first, so check back on the website to see more!

Kit contains:

This kit doesn't include a USB power bank - if you don't have one they're easy to obtain online, at supermarkets or at mobile phone shops (My Naturewatch suggest using one that's 6000mAh or larger).

The incredible photo of a fox was taken with a My Naturewatch Kit by the Roberts family. Thanks to Joanne for permission to use the photo, and to Ben (7) and Hugh (4) who put together the kit and managed to capture the fantastic image.

Please note: the microSD cards we supply come pre-loaded with NOOBS which may need to be deleted before you install the Naturewatch software

144 customer reviews

4 months ago
Good little camera, easy to put together and the photo quality is surprisingly good. The server occasionally crashes and we're not sure why, and it does get a bit hot even with the heatsink (placed inside in a cold bit of the house) which might be causing that, but overall a quick restart tends to fix that and I'd say it's worth the price. We're using it to track cats and had to turn the motion sensitivity up for that, but that's a simple button in the web portal.
by Anonymous about My Naturewatch Wildlife Camera via REVIEWS.io
5 months ago
Camera would only work for a few minutes before locking up. Eventually was referred to a configuration tweak which made it more reliable (turns out that some of the components supplied are incompatible with each other/the default configuration). Also transpires that the heatsink provided is inadequate as the ARM CPU runs very hot.
by WGT about My Naturewatch Wildlife Camera via REVIEWS.io
2 years ago
Came quickly and contained everything as expected. Easy to make and picture quality is better than I expected from a self-assembly product.
by Katie about My Naturewatch Wildlife Camera via REVIEWS.io
2 years ago
Good to be able to build one, just too close isn't working.m might need to move/swap this camera! Would be good to be able to login too
by Michiel about My Naturewatch Wildlife Camera via REVIEWS.io
2 years ago
Easy to set up, gave to parents so they can see the birds and squirrels that visit their garden. It displays a live feed and stores images and Video triggered by movement to the supplied SD card. These can be managed on any other device on local network which is handy. Can be accessed out side home network too with some extra changes to code.
by Jon about My Naturewatch Wildlife Camera via REVIEWS.io
2 years ago
First time working with any raspberry pi, got it up and running easy, great kit, looking forward to some interesting wildlife pics.
by Anonymous about My Naturewatch Wildlife Camera via REVIEWS.io
3 years ago
I bought this to keep my retired Dad occupied into the New Year. He previously loved the Pirate Radio pack, so I know he'll equally enjoy assembling this to monitor the birds visiting his garden.
by Jeremy about My Naturewatch Wildlife Camera via REVIEWS.io
3 years ago
Bought it for my nieces to construct & use (with help from their dad!), as it was so reasonable I also bought one for myself! The contents of the kits was not as listed on the packaging, but in a good way, as they included a 32GB micro-SD card (rather than 16GB as stated) & a heatsink (which wasn't mentioned!
by Anonymous about My Naturewatch Wildlife Camera via REVIEWS.io

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