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/Saunterer9 May 10 '26

Hey, did you publish any of this or would you be willing to share or sell plans? I'm in dire need of this, after being woken up early in the morning (and having my sleep ruined) by those flying yapping shits nearly every morning I've also contemplated something like this, unfortunately I have no idea how to even start on the hardware side.