This guy built a motion sensing water gun to scare off the rabbits intruding on his garden. His goals for the project were:
# Must have automatic fire ability # Must be able to detect motion # Must be able to record the event # Must be able to turn off auto fire mode and take on manual control # Must be able to "Water the Lawn" # Must be able to cover a 30 foot field of fire # Must have a range of about 25 to 35 feet # Must have the ability to work at night with all of the above features # Must be able to Play back any recordings and laugh while sitting on the deck drinking a beer.
For supplies he used: # X10 120 volt outlet # X10 Transmitter and Receiver # X10 Libraries that would work with C# # In ground sprinkler solenoid # Phidget single servo board with servo # Phidget C# libraries # PVC pipe, Copper Ice maker pipe, and a few other plumbing parts # Old computer, 1.7 GHz with a gig of ram # USB Web camera
He also used AForge.NET which is a C# framework designed for developers and researchers in the fields of Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence - image processing, neural networks, genetic algorithms, machine learning, etc. http://code.google.com/p/aforge
