Inspiration
My family loves to grow vegetables in our backyard. The problem is that squirrels come and eat the vegetables and plants. We also love animals and don’t want to kill them.
What it does
Concept of this prototype is to save vegetables and fruits from animals without killing them. So as soon as any squirrel or mouse will come in backyard ,this device with motion detector will sense and click picture which will send to machine to process via Rasberry pi ,where we will get confirm signal that its squirrel and that signal will trigger machine code where its written to play drum and shake little bit and after this process Squirrel will run away .
How I built it
Motion detection will be done with a combination of a passive infrared (PIR) sensor and a PING ultradistance sensor. A light sensor (photo-cell) has also been added to verify if enough light is present for a good picture. Photo will be taken and sent to Raspberry PI
Challenges I ran into
Finding API/IOT for Scanning animal and comparing with squirrels and then start signaling to drum.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
making a machine to help animals and humans. I also enjoyed exploring all solutions.
What I learned
As a Middle schooler I learnt we can make lot of possible solution in python/AI.
What's next for Smart Vegetables Saver
smart vegetable saver will scan squirrels and shakes something so squirrel will run away and we can avoid making noise in night.
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