In practice, it took several days of frustration, fiddling, and tweaking on both hardware and software fronts of the maker equation before everything worked as it should.
If you watch the video above, the Makerinator will walk you through the Present Peeker Trap creation process, from selecting the initial components and coding, to adding more components and coding again, to quashing wiring bugs and coding again, before testing the trap.
(Image credit: The Makerinator ) (Image credit: The Makerinator ) It turns out that the original plan of simply using a single microcontroller and cheap camera sensor wasn’t viable. Thus, subsequent iterations of this project swapped out the camera to one that was capable enough to show a face without a full set of studio lights shining directly at it. Moreover, the ESP32 Cam board alone was too puny to handle all the work, so Makerinator added an Arduino Nano clone to handle photoresistor sensing and buzzer functionality.
During a demonstration, which we strongly suspect didn’t feature the real Mrs. Inator (or Santa), the finished Christmas Present Peeker Trap worked as follows:
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