This FAQ is intended to cover our cam and our specific hedgehogs only. The two hedgehogs' names are Gilda and Puffer . They are African Pygmy hedgehogs. Gilda is gray on the top and off white on the bottom and has brown eyes.
Puffer is an albino, and is therefore off white all over and has pink eyes.
Gilda is named after comedienne Gilda Radner, because both Gildas make Aimee laugh. Puffer, by far the more timid of the two, got her name from her habit of puffing up and pointing her spines at everything . The hedgehogs are illuminated by a bunch of infrared LEDs purchased from Radio Shack. We'd like to convert the cam to Linux, or anything else that will run on the hardware we have. Infrared light is invisible to the human eye, and the hedgehog eye, too, as far as we know.