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Computer Controlled Lawn Defender

October 12, 2007 by Will O'Brien 13 Comments


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.

Posted in Misc HacksTagged visual processing, VisualProcessing, water cannon, WaterCannon

Visual Computer Pong Player

June 13, 2007 by Will O'Brien 22 Comments


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.

Posted in computer hacks, Misc HacksTagged visual processing, VisualProcessing

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