To keep people from walking on his lawn and inhibiting its growth, Inventor and YouTuber Ryder of the YouTube Channel Ryder Calm Down built a people-d

Engineer Makes an AI Camera Sprinkler to Keep People Off His Lawn | PetaPixel

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2021-07-14 21:00:04

To keep people from walking on his lawn and inhibiting its growth, Inventor and YouTuber Ryder of the YouTube Channel Ryder Calm Down built a people-detecting smart camera rigged to a sprinkler system that would spray those who got too close.

Ryder explains that the city where he lives inexplicably removed a chunk of sidewalk from the front of his house, leaving only unsightly dirt.

“About a year ago the city dug up the sidewalk in front of my house and I’m not sure why,” he says. “So now there is a whole bunch of dirt where the sidewalk used to be and people keep walking over top of it. I’m trying to plant grass, but it doesn’t grow when people keep walking on it.”

Rather than relying on a sign, Ryder decided to take a smart camera system and rig up a different kind of “solution.”

As previously reported, Ryder had developed a artificial intelligence-powered camera in the past which he trained to recognize dogs and, once one was detected, yell compliments at it and its owner. That system was built on the Raspberry Pi camera and a Raspberry Pi, which worked together to analyze subjects using a pre-programmed machine learning system that was able to recognize about 80 different objects including people, cars, and dogs.

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