> Ever gone camping and wondered what animals were around you? Limited cell service, SD cards are too time intensive, and wifi's range is too limited. Introducing a custom trail camera featuring a lora rasberry pi hat PCB and worlds first open source lora video streaming protocol written in python. I literally wrote the code so an image can be converted into bytes, turned into radio frequencies, and subsequently decoded up to 2 miles away. Images take less than a minute to be sent and can be sorted to see if they contain wildlife with an image variation script I wrote. > > Challenges: > • didn't know what a pcb was -> learned how to use easyeda > • first pcb had the wrong ipex connector -> bought new ipex connector > • first pcb's moduels came dead on arrival -> created second pcb > • second pcb had a component in the wrong orientation -> individually desodered a 40 pin header, broke it, and resodered only the metal bits that were needed > • webcam drivers weren't working -> used ffmpeg > • base64 encoding wasn't working -> used pil library > • some packets were being missed -> increased wait time between packets > github.com/SidharthBhatt/lora