Waiving your fist in the air and yelling "get off my lawn" is for old and grumpy people. Technologically savvy young people do it with AI.
YouTuber Ryder Calm Down was sick and tired of people walking on his front lawn and trampling the grass that he's trying to regrow. So Ryder decided to build a sprinkler system with artificial intelligence that can detect people and dogs walking on the lawn, and spray them with water.
Ryder took a Wyze security camera with custom firmware and paired it with a Raspberry Pi computer, an electronic valve to control water flow in a hose.
Using a YOLOv3 machine learning model for computer vision and pattern recognition, Ryder could automate the detection of people and turn on a spray of water to get them off his lawn!
Before you get all angry about the watery attack, please note that Ryder had subsequently updated all of us that the people in the video were actually all his friends, who knew what would happen if they walked on his lawn before agreeing to do it in camera. It's all just for fun, folks!
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