Motorised camera that tracks the bird feeder

A Pi camera on a pan servo, pointed at a garden. Detect a bird, keep it in frame, save the best still, and post a daily digest.

Requirements

Motion detection on a video stream (a sample clip is in the repo) that ignores wind-blown leaves

Pan control that keeps the moving region centred with damped movement — no jitter

Save the sharpest frame per visit, scored by a simple focus measure

A daily digest page: visits per hour, the ten best stills

Run against the sample clip with a simulated servo

Species labelling with a small local model, with a confidence threshold and an "unsure" bucket

raspberry-picomputer-visionpythonservo

Intermediate

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