Ask HN: How to make something awesome out of Motion Detection

Posted by ideamonk on Wednesday January 07, 2009 @03:04PM
from the ask-hn dept.

My friends have been working on motion detection using matlab and have done a really nice work! I wonder what could be a superawesome application for this kind of technology. We got a team of people into robotics, electronics, programming desktop apps and web developers...

sugar spice and everything nice... any ideas for what could be chemical X (a nice application) for motion detection ?

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Re:Ask HN: How to make something awesome out of Motion Detec... by noonespecial on Wednesday January 07, 2009 @03:16PM (#423883)

Please make an app that will aim and fire my usb missile launcher at my cat when it jumps up on my desk to have a nice stomp across my keyboard in my absence.

I'm tired of retuning to find a wtf message from a random contact because I apparently IM'ed "zdever yr tn mnyuk,lo" while I was in the shower.

Oh.. you meant a commercial application. Sorry, can't help you there. :)

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Re:Ask HN: How to make something awesome out of Motion Detec... by ideamonk on Wednesday January 07, 2009 @04:02PM (#423951)

lol, nopes we're looking forward to make something for Microsoft projects this year - http://www.student2business.co.in/

All we could think was a traffic monitoring system where we can find out if a vehicles has broken the red light rule.

trying to think something better... any ideas on whats the latest in this field?

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Re:Ask HN: How to make something awesome out of Motion Detec... by noonespecial on Wednesday January 07, 2009 @10:45PM (#424417)

We're based in DC and right now traffic flow is all the buzz. It turns out that sometimes adding more roads can actually make a traffic situation worse. There are lights and whole lanes that change function based on traffic flow.

There are cameras everywhere but all they are used for is checking for accidents radio personalities chattering about where its backed up. The most high tech measuring device in use is those goofy rubber hoses that they lay on the roads. High tech camera based flow monitoring would be huge. Predicting impending traffic jams before they're 10 miles long would be gold. The mind boggles at how much that real-time data would fetch.

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Re:Ask HN: How to make something awesome out of Motion Detec... by noodle on Wednesday January 07, 2009 @05:01PM (#424038)

cheaper and more effective security systems. something that the average homeowner can install and integrate to their home network, without having the need for calling in a pro.

detect motion, follow it, or zoom in on it, or whatever.

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Re:Ask HN: How to make something awesome out of Motion Detec... by vinalk on Thursday January 08, 2009 @01:31PM (#425365)

try billboards, capture people's faces. project them into the ad running on the billboard. Kind of scary tho.

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