Mothbox Updates v4.12
We have been super busy deploying another dozen mothboxes around panama while also adding cool new features! So i have a backlog of updates to post about!
So here's a bunch of cool tweaks and updates we made:
**The Mothbox can support 4 different types of targets now!**
https://digital-naturalism-laboratories.github.io/Mothbox/docs/building/target/
-Standard Target (about A4 size, can capture moths less than 1mm)
-Dual target
-Quad target
-Just sit it in front of a white wall/sheet
**The Runtime is DOUBLED**
This is some of the biggest news. We include a cheap 12V regulator (like $10) in the design now because we realized that a lot of L-ion batteries that say they are 12V actually spend 80% of their lifespan around 11V. Which means some things like our UV lights start dimming. But by adding this $10 bit we get some amazing features like:
* The lights stay on for 4 days instead of 2! (about 21 hours of constant run time)
* The lights have a uniform illumination throughout their life (no dimming on last day)
* wiring the ring lights is wayyy easier because you can chop their regulator off!
**We have a full post-processing AI+Human workflow!**
Thanks the Beetlepalooza, we teamed up with some awesome folks to make some scripts for pyBioCLIP that let us analyze our moths super quickly to a specific taxon+physical region. Then we are able to visualize this data in a fiftyone UI that lets humans correct and sort or add labels, to then analyze it deeper taxonomically! it rules
Check it out
https://github.com/Digital-Naturalism-Laboratories/bucket-o-bugs
**We also did a bunch of lens tests for the mothbox, like adding a wide-angle lens. Didn't really like it.**
Too distorted on the edges
**There is a unified scheduling script for pi4 pi5**
The github now has a single "Scheduler.py" script that can work for a Pi4 (with pijuice) or Pi5!
**We use internal UV lights now**
We share how to make a internal UV light so everything is nice and tidy and protected in the field, along with more elegant designs for connected any external UV light too!
https://digital-naturalism-laboratories.github.io/Mothbox/docs/building/attractor/
**The Documentation is much cleaner in general**
https://github.com/Digital-Naturalism-Laboratories/Mothbox
There's even an instructable!
https://www.instructables.com/Mothbox-DIY-Insect-Camera/
** @leeborg got brought in to help clean up all our Pi python scripts so they are much more human readable and organized!**
https://github.com/Digital-Naturalism-Laboratories/Mothbox
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