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Militarizing Your Backyard with Python: Computer Vision and the Squirrel Hordes
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A PyCon 2012 talk by Kurt Grandis on building an automated water-squirting turret that uses Python and computer vision to detect and drive off squirrels from a bird feeder.
HN loves it as a funny, inspiring hobby project and calls it one of the best conference talks ever.
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