A Python-Powered Turret for Deterring Squirrels
Next Day Video · Talk · YouTube title: Militarizing Your Backyard with Python: Computer Vision and the Squirrel Hordes
Why it's here
HN loves it as a funny, inspiring hobby project and calls it one of the best conference talks ever.
What it covers
A PyCon 2012 talk by Kurt Grandis on building an automated water-squirting turret that uses Python and computer vision to detect and drive off squirrels from a bird feeder.