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I am seeking neighboring stores! Sometimes I crave gum on the street, Gum drop anyone? To summarize, I used: 1. Low weight but very cool product (like Propell
by jimhi 2y ago
I am seeking neighboring stores! Sometimes I crave gum on the street, Gum drop anyone?
To summarize, I used:
1. Low weight but very cool product (like Propeller Hats)
2. Raspberry Pi for controlling everything
3. Adafruit stepper motor for the dropping mechanism
4. Yarn for holding the hat
5. Roboflow for the AI
- rocauc 2y agoi work on roboflow. seeing all the creative ways people use computer vision is motivating for us. let me know (email in bio) if there's things you'd like to be better.
- seanhunter 2y agoThis is legitimately awesome. Nice job sir.
- Uehreka 2y ago> Sometimes I crave gum on the street My immediate response to this was “ew, there’s already so much gum on the street”. Then I realized you meant you want to chew gum while walking down the street and I became enlightened.
- wkat4242 2y agoWhat do you think happens after they have enough of the gum? :)
- garrettgarcia 2y agoAfter gum on the street, there's gum on the street
- yreg 2y agoThere is always this option: https://youtu.be/vYrXLaU8guU https://youtu.be/vYrXLaU8guU
- prepend 2y agoI dream of a world where I merely open my mouth and wish it and the gum just flies down into it, already unwrapped. You’re working toward this world and I commend you.
- thfuran 2y agoI'll hold out for the teleportation-based version so I don't have to go through the effort of opening my mouth.
- generic92034 2y agoI would hope that we have invented error-free software development by then, though. Otherwise, a small error leading to the wrong coordinates could really ruin your day (or head)... ;)
- ChainOfFools 2y agoOr use lasers and tiny gum-shaped smoke bombs to sample and model the local air column currents, pre soften and flatten a portion of the gum paper-thin with some sort of wettimg/rolling assembly, stage, then let it drop and form its own miniature gum parachute or replica of one of those whirling propeller seeds that have a built-in wing to slow their fall.
- dmvdoug 2y agoStartup opportunity: AI inside a small in-mouth implant to provide nerve stimulus to open mouth for you when it detects floaty inbound gum.
- thfuran 2y agoThat does sound convenient. Can it be hooked up to my eyes to detect flies and close my mouth to make sure I don't inhale bugs while biking?
- PlunderBunny 2y agoWhat about a “we will remember it for you wholesale” version of the gum experience - you pay money and are then implanted with memories that are indistinguishable from chewing the gum. I kinda think this is the end goal for all capitalism - you pay money for nothing.
- cpill 2y agothe biggest thing he's overcoming is the rent?! how's he doing that while goofing off with projects like this?
- parthianshotgun 2y agoCan you explain the intention behind your post?
- tamimio 2y agoSlightly unrelated: Did the building owner/landlord complain about that? Is it legal? I know a friend of mine whom the building asked to remove a camera they had. It was a camera used only to record the hill view in front of the building, so it isn't violating any privacy, and it was attached with magnets, so no damage whatsoever.
- ChainOfFools 2y agoI was also curious about this. a bunch of BASE jumping hats dropping off a building is exactly the sort of project I would momentarily think about doing and never seriously entertain due to being certain that sooner or later someone, somewhere is going to sue me for some marginally harm-like side effect.
- burnished 2y agoI don't know how litigous your region is but of all the people you know who have been sued, how many of them got sued for something silly vs a more low effort scheme like the classic throw yourself onto someones car and have 'back pain'? You might be safe to do silly shit on the basis that there are easier and better targets available.
- radicality 2y agoAlso curious if they had any grounds for that. I was under the impression that if you have a camera within your apartment (looking through window), nobody should be able to tell you no. Unless perhaps the camera was attached outside their window (no longer their apartment), in a way that could be deemed unsafe and fall off and hurt someone, whereupon the building owner could be held liable? In that case I would find it reasonable to tell them to remove it.
- tamimio 2y ago> Unless perhaps the camera was attached outside their window I remember it was on the balcony, securely attached. The building simply cited their policy, not any laws nor safety issues.
- op00to 2y agoThere’s plenty of gum already on the street. Simply scrape it up and you can have all the gum you desire.
- reportgunner 2y agoWhat if we had like a fridge with glass window and drinks or snacks organized in rows with identifiers for each. You could enter the identifier and make your payment to the fridge and it would drop the corresponding drink/snack to a slot on the bottom of the fridge.