KittyCam – Cat Facial Recognition Powered by Raspberry Pi (github.com)

"or put his butt on the camera, it fails to tell me my cat was eating."

My favorite issue this year.

Now you just need to automatically post the pictures to imgur/reddit and let the karma flow in. :|

For some reason, I'm on all the different things posted here, this makes me want to get into robotics. I've been thinking about ordering a raspberrypi, or a MicroPython board, etc., but something holds me back. Maybe the fear of getting into something that I won't have time for.

related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4584453

   Face detection for cats in JavaScript (github.com)
   80 points by stevewilhelm 1062 days ago | flag | 36 comments

A swede goes nuts and builds a cat door with built in face recognition, heating, lights, rfid etc based on raspberry pi:

Pictures and story: http://joakimsoderberg.github.io/catcierge/

Code: https://github.com/JoakimSoderberg/catcierge

I know a couple shelters that would love cat/dog facial recognition that was able to identify the animal based on it's face.

This project isn't that, but it's still pretty cool.

I'm reminded of this DIY cat door that used pattern recognition to prevent the owner's cats from bringing dead animals into the house.

http://www.quantumpicture.com/Flo_Control/flo_control.htm (2010)

I love cat based electronic projects. I've been trying for the last few weeks to come up with a real time GPS tracker, but I just can't seem to finalize the parts list. All gps chips I know of are too big and tend to overheat.

I wonder if this will be quick enough to trigger a cat scarer: water spray, high frequency tones or flashy lights