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This is great for my chicken coop project :) I have been working with a raspberry pi and camera to train a system to recognize and respond to squirrels (close t

by conorh 9y ago

This is great for my chicken coop project :) I have been working with a raspberry pi and camera to train a system to recognize and respond to squirrels (close the feeder to stop them eating food). There are many other options to build this, but it is nice that this is an integrated system that is easy to train!

Throaway786 9y ago
Evil tech, taking food from little squirrel.
caio1982 9y ago
Please submit a post about this project, with juicy details!
- conorh 9y ago
  Sure will do, mostly I've been training squirrel recognition models on my laptop and also learning what it takes to run those models on the raspberry pi (low frame rates) with OpenCV. I did also buy one of these though https://www.adafruit.com/product/997 https://www.adafruit.com/product/997 so once I get everything running I may also have videos of squirrels being sprayed by the garden hose :)
  - BatFastard 9y ago
    That is awesome!
  - caio1982 9y ago
    If I may give some dog trainer advice, you are going to spend water and energy making some squirrels just a bit more challenged to the feat, consider just attracting the offending ones to elsewhere where they find some cheap/disposable food source so they let the chicken's alone :-) — this approach is usually cheaper and renders more results with dogs, cats and even chickens themselves! Say, once you detect them, you lure them to a certain path or place, maybe with some LEDs or scent or something you can automate dispensing (I don't known squirrels).
  - dwyerm 9y ago
    It's it kind of funny... one of the first home-brew CV projects I ever saw was an engineer's system that would unlock the cat flap door when it detected the cat's silhouette. A desirable side effect is that it would not open the door when the cat was carrying a rodent corpse. https://web.archive.org/web/20080913222639/http://www.quantumpicture.com/Flo_Control/flo_control.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20080913222639/http://www.quantu...
  - sytelus 9y ago
    You might want to take a look at project ELL that runs DNNs on Raspberry pi: https://github.com/Microsoft/ELL https://github.com/Microsoft/ELL
maxxxxx 9y ago
Nice! I bet you could start a business with this if you get it robust. I have been thinking about a bird feeder that works only for birds below a certain weight like hummingbirds. We often have crows taking our feeder apart.
jatsign 9y ago
I would really like a camera that would log when deer, or other wildlife aside from squirrels, are in my backyard.

by conorh 9y ago

Throaway786 9y ago

Evil tech, taking food from little squirrel.

caio1982 9y ago

Please submit a post about this project, with juicy details!

conorh 9y ago
Sure will do, mostly I've been training squirrel recognition models on my laptop and also learning what it takes to run those models on the raspberry pi (low frame rates) with OpenCV. I did also buy one of these though https://www.adafruit.com/product/997 https://www.adafruit.com/product/997 so once I get everything running I may also have videos of squirrels being sprayed by the garden hose :)
- BatFastard 9y ago
  That is awesome!
- caio1982 9y ago
  If I may give some dog trainer advice, you are going to spend water and energy making some squirrels just a bit more challenged to the feat, consider just attracting the offending ones to elsewhere where they find some cheap/disposable food source so they let the chicken's alone :-) — this approach is usually cheaper and renders more results with dogs, cats and even chickens themselves! Say, once you detect them, you lure them to a certain path or place, maybe with some LEDs or scent or something you can automate dispensing (I don't known squirrels).
- dwyerm 9y ago
  It's it kind of funny... one of the first home-brew CV projects I ever saw was an engineer's system that would unlock the cat flap door when it detected the cat's silhouette. A desirable side effect is that it would not open the door when the cat was carrying a rodent corpse. https://web.archive.org/web/20080913222639/http://www.quantumpicture.com/Flo_Control/flo_control.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20080913222639/http://www.quantu...
- sytelus 9y ago
  You might want to take a look at project ELL that runs DNNs on Raspberry pi: https://github.com/Microsoft/ELL https://github.com/Microsoft/ELL

maxxxxx 9y ago

Nice! I bet you could start a business with this if you get it robust. I have been thinking about a bird feeder that works only for birds below a certain weight like hummingbirds. We often have crows taking our feeder apart.

jatsign 9y ago

I would really like a camera that would log when deer, or other wildlife aside from squirrels, are in my backyard.