Gadget Metro

About a year ago, some burglar was able to get in through our backdoor and stole some money. He wasn’t able to get much but we realized we were vulnerable to attack. The next day or two, some other homeowner near as reported that some burglar was in their house. I think it’s the same person. Eventually the guy was apprehended.

It was a 15 year old teenager. Some runaway kid who got involved in some syndicate perhaps. He was taken away by his family and I don’t think he just spent a couple of days in jail.

I wanted to have a security camera installed at the back side of our house. Probably one of those cameras with infrared capability so it can see at night. I can just add in a bunch of infrared LEDs to “light up” the area and make it more visible. I’ve seen some plans on the internet on how to do just that. Basically they’ve just built this square matrix of LEDs and wire them up, add some resistors to limit the current and there you go, a nice DIY infrared light source.

The good thing about infrared is that is shows on camera, but the unsuspecting burglar doesn’t see any light at all.