Python
Groundhog Tracker
A toolkit of Python scripts that automatically records, edits, and tracks Goober, a groundhog living under my porch. Instead of scrubbing hours of blank video, it only records when he moves, trims the clips, tracks him with OpenCV, and formats the output for social media.
The pipeline
Catching Goober
A live motion-detection camera made from an old laptop and a USB webcam. It watches the feed constantly but only hits record when something moves.
python spy_cam.pyCutting dead air
A command-line tool that chops each video down to the good parts, dropping the empty frames before and after he appears.
python trim_vid.py -i Videos/test1.mp4 -o Videos/tmp/trimmed.mp4 -s 2 -e 10Tracking the action
The core logic: draw an initial bounding box, then OpenCV's MOG2 background subtraction follows him frame by frame.
python post_process_tracking.py -i Videos/tmp/trimmed.mp4 -o Videos/tmp/tracked.mp4Phone-friendly formatting
Slices the widescreen feed into a 1080×1920 vertical video, ready for YouTube Shorts or TikTok.
python crop_vid.py -i Videos/tmp/tracked.mp4 -o FINAL_OUTPUT.mp4Field recon
