#473 The overengineered Solution to my Pigeon Problem
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The overengineered Solution to my Pigeon Problem
I built a wifi-equipped water gun to shoot the pigeons on my balcony, controlled over the internet by a python script running openCV reading the camera image of my old iPhone.
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