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Re:Bird-Away: Raspberry Pi-powered water-based bird deterrent by wrxd on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @07:17AM (#48816192)
> asks Claude whether birds are present

I would ask Claude to write some computer vision code to detect birds and save a lot of money

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Re:Bird-Away: Raspberry Pi-powered water-based bird deterrent by sahn44 on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @07:31AM (#48816289)
I have it down to $0.60/month which is lower than I expected I could get it with good accuracy. That's ~10k images processed.
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Re:Bird-Away: Raspberry Pi-powered water-based bird deterrent by sgt on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @07:38AM (#48816341)
I guess one could use this in security detection as well
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Re:Bird-Away: Raspberry Pi-powered water-based bird deterrent by sahn44 on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @08:15AM (#48816676)
True. Simple prompt change to spray humans, instead.
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Re:Bird-Away: Raspberry Pi-powered water-based bird deterrent by HardwareLust on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @07:49AM (#48816429)
What is the use case for this?
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Re:Bird-Away: Raspberry Pi-powered water-based bird deterrent by sahn44 on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @08:14AM (#48816658)
I had a lot of nuisance birds hanging around my parents' pool

Blog for more detail: https://mattsahn.github.io/bird-away-blog/

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Re:Bird-Away: Raspberry Pi-powered water-based bird deterrent by HardwareLust on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @09:22AM (#48817443)
Nice, thanks!
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Re:Bird-Away: Raspberry Pi-powered water-based bird deterrent by sgt on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @07:37AM (#48816337)
Very cool
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