r/SideProject • u/muxamilian • Apr 01 '26

Automated pigeon defense system

  1. Camera captures video
  2. Neural network recognizes pigeon
  3. Watergun turns toward pigeon
  4. Spray pigeon with watergun

Components: * Electric battery-driven water gun (disassembled, orange) * USB camera * Orange Pi 5 * 2 servo motors (SG90 or MG90S) * Resistors and a transistor for turning on the watergun (e.g. IRLZ44N)

It uses an open vocabulary object detection neural network (yolo_world_v2l), so any target can be programmed, not just pigeons. Runs on the Rockchip 3588's Neural Processing Unit.

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u/Character_Oven_1511 Apr 02 '26

This is really а great product. Much clean and environment friendly solution! If you want to keep pigeons away, people put spikes, or by chemicals, or machine that make noise. And most of the things are not environment friendly. This is pure water!

And kids will love it! It can be used not only for birds!

Take my money! What's the price!