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3-Weeks Of Hourly Pictures In A Time-Lapse At Kampung Pasir Gajah, Kemaman

 


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Timelapse River Terrapin Hatchery, Kampung Pasir Gajah Kemaman

And do come back to read the backstory below…

 

Backstory:

Kampung Pasir Gajah, Kemaman has been our pilot site for deployment of a credit card sized computer, the Raspberry Pi, Pi camera and a Celcom3G data package, all bundled into an off-shelf AEON Jusco Lock N’ Lock box (for weather proofing). The hardware was an extension to our successful Abigail river terrapin tracking project that managed to track an adult female for 8-days till the batteries ran out. We’ve a video flyby in Google Earth but due to the sensitivity of our critically endangered friends, we will not post their coordinates  - our apologies, but its all in good order to protect our fellow river terrapins.

Abigail called home to Jarvis (now renamed to codename: Applejack – our Raspberry Pi setup) daily, every hour with coordinates. So, to further maximise the usages of Applejack, we decided to deploy it at our terrapin hatchery – as an alpha test, as a run up to next year’s eggs and to raise funds by selling raffle tickets at RM3/USD$1 each to guess when eggs would hatch and from which nest :) UPDATE: We will be doing this with some Berjaya Tourism students tomorrow, 19th May 2014. This would subtly create awareness and propagate information regarding nesting months, number of clutches per terrapin, eggs hatched and create a fun guessing game in the whole process! Plus fund raise to sustain our hatchery for head starting river terrapins.

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As for the time-lapse build. The Raspberry Pi computer was retrofitted, and programming codes were embedded into the SD card to email pictures, 1MB-1.5MB each (due to our limited Celcom3G 3GB data package) every hour, on the hour except midnight as that’s when we cold boot it. Further enhancements would include a SMS maintenance system to remotely login/call home (to do an SMS back door to activate a reverse VPN tunnelling as mobile data providers serve dynamic IP addresses), upload to Facebook directly to run the raffles campaign (photo updates for donors) and even do ‘user-request for live pic on demand’ (Gotta see whether Celcom or YTL would like to sponsor some data first!).

Would like to help and don’t know how?

We now have more than 230 river terrapin hatchlings! Help us raise them for 5-6 months, by symbolically adopting them! Only RM30 per terrapin. More details HERE!

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