Computer controlled lawn defender

posted Oct 12th 2007 10:18pm by Will O'Brien
filed under: misc hacks


I found this thanks to [Mark Frauenfelder] on BoingBoing. The ‘Waterhobo‘ is a computer controlled sprinkler that fires upon anyone who’s cutting across the owners lawn. The video is pretty amusing. An infrared camera is mounted up top, and the computer measures motion in the image to determine if it should start firing.

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Visual computer pong player

posted Jun 13th 2007 7:35pm by Will O'Brien
filed under: misc hacks, pcs hacks


I think it’d be more fun if the computer had to actuate a joystick, but [ashish]s visual based computer pong player is still pretty sweet. He’s capturing the game state with his webcam, and the computer processes the image and controls the pong paddle via tcp client connection based only on what it sees.

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