Build a Motion Activated Spy Camera

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Charlie Flowers
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How would we put a timer on this circuit to make it turn off after say 10 or 20 seconds of recording.

I watched your video of how to build a Motion Activated Spy Camera. You mentioned that you can build it to turn on and off after it records motion. How would you do that. Can you send me how I would add that feature.

Yeah this needs an autostop feature. Because without it, what if it falsly triggers but something ends up happening, then you need to watch 3 hours of video?

Question, would an auto stop feature (say, 10 seconds after instance) partition each instance of motion in its own file for easy veuwing?

I want to build a stealth camera and your video would work well for me, but I would need it to start and stop when it sensed motion. How would that be done? I see on e-bay that there are some motion activated night lights could those be made to work with a camera and could they supply the light necessary to see the culprit that I am trying to catch?
Thank you,
Larry

You could setup a simple timer to have it record for x amount of seconds after motion is detected. A cap and a few other components is all you’d need.

Please elaborate on the timer that would stop the recording. I am very interested in this setup but need it to stop recording after x amount of secs. Thanks

You could use a timing capacitor circuit.

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