#3... I know! I've complained about it once or twice on FaceBook, and it seems to mostly have died down. But it's like----really they do nothing on FaceBook, why are you bringing them here? It is funny the number of people who use those programs to crosspost from Twitter to Facebook and then from LiveJournal to Facebook and well, it saves them time, sure. Anyway, yeah, Lawn! Meh!
One of those projects that I've had on perpetual back burner, that get's more plausible due to Moore's Law all the time:
Couple of video cameras at the corners of the yard. Grab frames and cross reference to figure out locations of kids in my yard. Install aim-able laminar flow nozzles on turrets under the eaves. Then integrate it all with my weather station so as to deliver windage corrected water on target when the "Get Off My Lawn" button is pressed.
Probably take a lot of work to get it to happen. And the geek cred from the Instructable just isn't all that appealing... :)
http://simplecv.org/ is the rope you're looking for on the tracking side. (See also http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPgqfnKG_T4 "Militarizing Your Backyard with Python: Computer Vision and the Squirrel Hordes") And the 1.0 version can just observe the target error and log it with the weather station readings, you can feed that into a correction model in 2.0. If you're somewhere with hot summers, you can probably get neighbor kids to "crowdsource" some training data for you :-)
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Couple of video cameras at the corners of the yard.
Grab frames and cross reference to figure out locations of kids in my yard.
Install aim-able laminar flow nozzles on turrets under the eaves.
Then integrate it all with my weather station so as to deliver windage corrected water on target when the "Get Off My Lawn" button is pressed.
Probably take a lot of work to get it to happen. And the geek cred from the Instructable just isn't all that appealing... :)
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