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March 26, 2012 07:22 pm PDT
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HOWTO build a robotic squirrel-squirting water sentry-gun, with python
Kurt Grandis needed to fight the squirrels in his backyard bird-feeder. So he turret-mounted a Super-Soaker, rigged for computer-control, and used python to program it to detect squirrels (distinguishing them from other critters, such as birds), target them, and squirt them. In this 26 minute technical presentation from Pycon US, he explains how to teach [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/FVjYqyQxN08/howto-build-a-robotic-squirrel.html
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