Wildlife & Pollinator Visitor Counter Kit

This kit serves one of our pillars: Biodiversity — technology in the service of nature.

How healthy is the little ecosystem around you? Mount this motion-counter beside a flower patch, a bird feeder, or a bee station and it tallies every visitor that passes — bees, butterflies, birds. Watch the live count grow on the screen and turn your garden into a real biodiversity study you can compare day to day and season to season.

What's inside the kit?

• PIR Motion Sensor Module HC-SR501 — PIR motion sensor — detects a passing visitor
• Arduino LCD 2x16 Keypad Shield — LCD 2x16 keypad shield — shows the live visitor count
• Arduino UNO Rev3 SMD Chip (SMD35) - Clone — Arduino UNO — counts and displays
• BB-01 Breadboard 830 Tie Point — Breadboard for wiring the sensor
• BB-J65 Jumper Wires for Breadboard & Arduino (65 Wire) — Jumper wires
• Clear Acrylic Case for Arduino UNO — Clear acrylic case for the controller

How the idea works

Every part in the kit has a job. Assembled in the right order they stop being loose parts and become a working system — one you build yourself, understand at every step, and see the result of with your own eyes. The included build guide walks you from zero to running.

Your journey: from kit to competition

• Build — assemble the kit and get it running.
• Understand — learn why each part is there and how it works.
• Improve — modify it, add a sensor, tune it, try your own idea.
• Make a project — turn the experiment into a project that solves a real environmental problem.
• Compete — enter your project into local and international competitions.

A good fit for tracks such as:

• Biodiversity / التنوّع الحيوي

What you'll learn

• How a PIR sensor detects the warmth and movement of a visitor
• Counting events in code and showing a running total on an LCD
• Why pollinator counts are a real measure of ecosystem health
• Designing a fair experiment: same spot, same time, compare days

Extend & innovate

Log counts to an SD card with timestamps, add a small camera to photograph each visitor, or build a simple species chart. Compare a flowering plant against a bare patch.