Jack the tortoise

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Jack
LIVE Camera View 1
720p
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Sensor zone
Cool side
Waiting for readings
Sensor zone
Hot side
Waiting for readings
Device
UV lights
UNKNOWN
Power unavailable
Device
Grow lights
UNKNOWN
Power unavailable
Device
Basking light
UNKNOWN
Power unavailable
Device
Heater
UNKNOWN
Power unavailable
Connecting enclosure sensors · Monitoring only
Today

Jack’s activity

Distance Traveled—estimated floor distance
Active Time—time in motion
First Seen—today
Last Seen—today

Waiting for tracking data

Behavior

7-day position heatmap

Computer vision

Jack’s tracker

Waiting
TargetJack
Active cameraCamera View 1
Capture size—
Sampling—
Detection time—
Position in enclosure—
Shell-pattern fit—
Movement threshold2 inches · Confirmed twice
Tracking regionLoading
Enclosure map46 × 22.5 in · Physically calibrated
Local history7 days

Each camera boundary follows the enclosure area outside the marked glass and upper-background exclusions. Recalibrate after moving either camera.

Pipeline

Frame processing

CaptureBoth cameras · About once per second each
DetectBackground change + Jack’s shell pattern · 640-pixel processing width
TrackMeasured enclosure coordinates · Jitter and sighting-gap checks
RecordPosition and activity history · Website updates

Both cameras map Jack’s ground-contact point onto the measured enclosure floor. Positions outside the calibrated surface are rejected instead of extrapolated.