Militarizing Your Backyard with Python: Computer Vision and the Squirrel Hordes

Kurt Grandis
Has your garden been ravaged by the marauding squirrel hordes? Has your bird feeder been pillaged? Tired of shaking your fist at the neighbor children? Learn how to use Python to tap into computer vision libraries and build an automated

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[peterjames314]

Cool idea but why isn't there better footage and footage of the squirt gun moving around and shooting at the squirrels. Obviously the main idea was to get rid of squirrels but if you want to present it on at pycon2012 and show it on you tube there needs to be higher quality footage because I could barely see the squirrels getting hit and It would be very cool to see the gun moving around.

[ChilapaOfTheAmazons]

The interesting part starts a bit after 15:45

[ArturoDezaPeru]

Best thing to do would have been to taint the water with natural coloring so you could actually see it.

[proof2580]

Interesting is subjective - Machine vision is interesting to me ! :P

[arunsupe]

Very interesting!!

[BiffGlock]

One word. Electricity. Shock the squirrels - they won't acclimate to that.

[BlackJavaBean]

Okay, I'm glad to hear that I'm not the only one who can never seem to get the documents that match the version of OpenCV I'm using. It's a great tool - but just it's so hard to follow when the documents call out functions that aren't there!

[broginator]

Whoops, wrong video. I was looking for "Militarizing Your Backyard with Pythons".

[olinga1]

I love this channel

[YumekuiNeru]

Go away.

[greggv8]

*yawn* Too much talking. Just show us the automated Super Squirrel Soaker 2012.