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Birds aren't real – how to create your own "bird"
- genpfault 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birds_Aren%27t_Real https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birds_Aren%27t_Real
- sva_ 2y agohttps://pr0gramm.com/top/birds%20aren't%20real%20/6025041 https://pr0gramm.com/top/birds%20aren't%20real%20/6025041
- amelius 2y agoHow many people actually believed it?
- IshKebab 2y agoThis is pretty much how flat Earthers started.
- amelius 2y agoI don't see any evidence that something got started in this case. It looks like a joke that did catch on, but only among people who got the joke.
- IshKebab 2y agoYeah I haven't seen anyone actually believe this either, but it did take a good few years between the flat Earth joke being popular on Reddit, and the resulting community of true believers arising. On the other hand it's even less plausible than flat Earth so you'd have to be particularly stupid to believe it; not just very very stupid.
- amiga386 2y agoHow a bird works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrUWSfd0Heg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrUWSfd0Heg
- bitwize 2y agoI smile when I see this meme because it makes me think of its possible origin in The Incredibles; specifically, a scene where a parrot turns out to be a surveillance drone on Syndrome's island: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g4zKWXdDt2Q https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g4zKWXdDt2Q
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- cassianoleal 2y agoCheck out the book Island, by Aldous Huxley. Came out in 1962 and the whole island is covered in surveillance devices made to look like birds.
- gmiller123456 2y agoThe idea goes back further than that. It goes all the way back to when the CIA invented birds. The references in popular culture are documentaries.
- Loughla 2y agoThe problem with this is when the idea gets taken over by people who aren't in on the joke. . . Remember how flat earth used to be a gag?
- BrianGragg 2y agoWait! You're saying the earth isn't flat?! /s ;)
- pvaldes 2y agoIs ant's fault, they keep making all those little bumps around. The real problem is that we are spending a bazillion of hours on dubious philosophical amusements, while the planet is being slowly cooked with us on board.
- Quarrelsome 2y agomad people don't need reasons to be mad; but rather excuses. If not flat earthism then something else like aliens or smth.
- left-struck 2y agoMaybe we should sow the seeds for conspiracy theories that would benefit humanity if the mad-anyway people were to believe them.
- smolder 2y agoWhat will this religion be called?
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- whstl 2y agoI remember UFO sightings being super common before smartphones. Celebrities always talking about every once in a while, a maid when I was a kid swearing she could see lights in the sky, etc. I even remember some people in my small town getting together to talk about it. (It seems aliens have wised up to the ubiquity of cameras, though!)
- PyWoody 2y agoAll Birds Are Cats (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eIl1VuGTk3g https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eIl1VuGTk3g)
- bigiain 2y agoAs per my usual habit, I'm now thinking up overcomplications of this. I happen to have two unused ESP Cams boards/cameras here. <instead of random steering movements, feeding the camera output over the ESP's Wi-Fi to something handy running OpenCV to do person or perhaps even face detection, and having it follow people as they walk past would make it _way_ more creepy. And perhaps replace the LED with an RGB LED, and do face recognition so it lights up green when I am being tracked, and red when it's tracking unknown faces...
- dvh 2y agoI think the camera in esp32-cam already had face or motion detection
- spiritplumber 2y agohttps://www.robots-everywhere.com/store/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=74&search=smol https://www.robots-everywhere.com/store/index.php?route=prod... you can make one of these if you like (I've been looking for an excuse to put the source somewhere)
- tzs 2y ago> having it follow people as they walk past That reminds me of this amusing project [1] from 13 years ago. An artist had a sidewalk right next to his window. He put a curtain on the window that was only wide enough to cover about 20% of the window, with a motorized system to move the curtain side to side. A camera and software would recognize when someone was passing by and rapidly move the curtain to block their view in and then move it with them as the passed by. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKhbUjVyKIc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKhbUjVyKIc
- Neywiny 2y agoWhile I love the esp32, it feels underutilized. I wonder if instead of the hardcoded "randomness" it could traverse a 1-D perlin noise field with a large scale but maybe varying sharpness. That way you can get long stretches of nothing, maybe a slow move, maybe a fast move.
- lampysecurity 2y agoOh I'm well aware it's underutilized, it's simply what I had on hand. I love the idea of adding variations to the speed as well, maybe a future revision. I programmed and wired this together initially in a hotel room. I didn't put much thought into the esthetic, that needs work.
- Neywiny 2y agoUnderstood. Thanks for considering it and the cool project
- ranguna 2y agoI'm not gen z, but this is giving me skibidi vibes.
- probably_wrong 2y agoI was always very bad at electronics, but I'm sure someone else here knows: how hard would it be to replace the esp32 with something without a CPU, RAM, USB and Wi-Fi while still being small enough?
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- jazzyjackson 2y agoSorry, what do you aim to be left with?
- dumbo-octopus 2y agoBusses
- probably_wrong 2y agoIf I read the project correctly, all the esp32 is doing is sending a signal to the camera to move left and right plus blinking the led. If that's the case then all you need is a circuit sending "left" and "right" signals[1] on alternate, semi-random intervals. I'm positive you could already do that with the technology available in 1970. So rather than "waste" a fully-working computer I'd be interested in knowing what a 1970s circuit would look like in the 2020s. [1] If it's a stepper motor then you need slightly more complex signals that just on and off, but the point is still the same.
- jazzyjackson 2y agoO, got you, definitely, could be something like an astable multi vibrator which is a fun discrete circuit to build, or a simple 555 timer in such a mode. Introducing randomness is a good exercise tho, replacing a capacitor with a capacitive microphone would do it I suppose
- gweinberg 2y agoIf birds aren't real, what were dinosaurs?
- BizarroLand 2y agoLizards. Tyrannosaurus means "Tyrant lizard" in greek