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Create your own smart baby monitor with a RaspberryPi and TensorFlow

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Re: Create your own smart baby monitor with a RaspberryPi and TensorFlow

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Other comments notwithstanding: how does a new parent find time for this???

You have less time, but you learn to organize and structure your time better. You also realize that if all you do is carry the baby, feed the baby and change diaper you will lose your mind, so you begin to find ways to push out work in 15-30mins increments. At least that's my story. :-D

Lucky you. Baby #1 required beyond constant attention, literally like 30hr per day (healthy just needy). Baby #2 is sweet and easygoing, but then there’s 2 of them...

Re: Create your own smart baby monitor with a RaspberryPi and TensorFlow

#32

Other comments notwithstanding: how does a new parent find time for this???

Harder still is getting it past the spouse regulatory approval process.

Not if your s/o is either a nerd herself or hasn't major issues with weird hacks. I got approval for converting our living room into something that could pass for a crossover between pub and disco - a wide assortment of liquors and actual stage worthy, DMX controlled lighting and effects. So much power that I had to run a new 32A circuit and re-wire the entire electrical distribution...

Re: Create your own smart baby monitor with a RaspberryPi and TensorFlow

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Forgive me for bringing it up, but this is also the reason why smart gun technology is a complete dead end.

I wonder if there are huge advances to be made in suppressor technology? Other than the noise, guns are basically perfect in their intended function. I guess you could try to further reduce recoil.

Oh, there's a lot more stuff that can be done to guns:

1) improve aim: embed wind and angle sensors, possibly even battlefield intel (position, weather, land layout) to account for any drift that might impact the bullet. Also, auto-fire if a designated target is in the crosshair (train the AI on human faces, combine with the previous sensoring). I would not be surprised if this technology will be developed rather sooner than later with armed robots, and then made smaller until it fits in a gun or at least a rifle.

2) improve/rethink propulsion. Right now almost all guns operate by some form of bullet in a casing with explosive propellant (excluding the rare caseless guns and co2/pressured gas sports guns). Railguns are already a thing at "ship scale", it will be only a matter of time until it gets scaled down to hand-held guns.

3) improve projectiles. Right now bullets are dumb pieces of metal. Why not have active bullets (e.g. subminiature rockets) or bullets laced with poisons so that even a scrape kills in the end?

4) improve... guns themselves, as a concept - think laser guns a la Star Trek, highly focused microwave, sound or other energy.

In the end humanity will always improve ways to kill each other, and all the concepts are already there in sci-fi (and in the case of poison bullets, the Russians made it a reality with the Markov murder).

Re: Create your own smart baby monitor with a RaspberryPi and TensorFlow

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post #23

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Was going to come here to say something very similar. I'm no luddite, but some things really shouldn't be left to tech like this...

Maybe not this specifically but a similar tech should be considered to detect babies in hot cars.

Automobile manufacturers are doing this now, IIRC. With sensors on the seats to remind you that you put something heavy into the car.

Re: Create your own smart baby monitor with a RaspberryPi and TensorFlow

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Other comments notwithstanding: how does a new parent find time for this???

Harder still is getting it past the spouse regulatory approval process.

My wife has been pretty accommodating for any nerdery I want to engage in for taking care of the kids. The only project she really put her foot down on (and probably correctly so) was about building a crib myself. She figured there were a lot of safety standards about materials, size, bar spacing, etc. that were best left to the professionals.

Re: Create your own smart baby monitor with a RaspberryPi and TensorFlow

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"Lavish attention on me and entertain me." ― Maggie Simpson via the baby translator https://simpsonswiki.com/wiki/Baby_translator That being said, every parent knows the "he/she has never cried like this" moment where your blood freezes and you rush to the child's bed. Seems hard to add this to the model in a reliable manner.

Please fill me in as a non-parent : what was actually up when the baby cried like that?

Our son at ~8 months had managed to get his leg in between the slats in the crib past his knee. I agree with OP -- this was instantly distinguishable from a normal "pick me up" cry.
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