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The cameras are now deployed at each crabitat!

Big ups to Dropcam for being the first sponsor of Project Shellter!

Here are screen captures of recent activity in each crabitat:

             Tori Shelling (on right) taking a late night stroll at ShellterEast

             The Karshellians (Khloe and Kim, left and right) enjoying a midnight snack at ShellterWest

Here’s the real news: now you can see a live crabitat video feed while you’re surfing the interwebs; just drag-and-drop the following images to your bookmarks toolbar or right click each and add to your favorites.

This will install a bookmarklet that will allow you to watch the crabs from anywhere on the interwebs (except a blank page)!

Once installed, click on the words in the toolbar to launch a live video feed in a popup window.

Depending upon your browser and version, you may have to allow popups for certain sites to see the feed.

These are alpha versions of the bookmarklets. If you have any problems using them please post your experience in the comments.

Also, if you’re a web developer that wants to help with the continued development of these bookmarklets, drop a note in the comments.

Hermit crabs are, for the most part, nocturnal creatures. Most crabitat activity occurs during nighttime PDT and EDT. YMMV.

This guest post is part of Project Shellter.

Project Shellter has been getting a lot of love from the media this week. At this rate, Paris Shellton and Tori Shelling (the stars of the Brooklyn crabitat) will be international superstars in no time!

Check out some of the coverage that’s run so far:

Engadget

TechCrunch

Sierra Club

Wired UK

Popular Science

Geek.com

Gizmag

DVICE

Discover Magazine

Crisp Green

GeekOSystem

Care2 Causes

Shareable

MAKE Magazine

Bre also did an interview for the PRI Radio show, Living on Earth. Tune in here starting this Saturday to listen to the Project Shellter segment!

Big ups to Dropcam for supporting the project and being the first official sponsor of Project Shellter. They sent us two dropcams and the first one at the Botcave is live! Hermit crabs are nocturnal creatures so they’ll move around more at night! Do your part to participate in Project Shellter and keep watch over the live feed and drop a comment if you see them do anything interesting like try and climb into one of the printed shells!