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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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Post by Grakel »

mschuster91 wrote: post #33
Grakel wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 soo…

I think those are all really great ideas for new inventions, some of which might eventually replace firearms. But I still think firearms are basically topped out. Anything else done to them complicates them more than it improves them.

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

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Post by Grakel »

nicolashahn wrote: post #26
Grakel wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

If we could get a caseless ammo system to work I think that'd be pretty game changing. Lots of factors going against that though.

Yes, that's a great point.

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

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Post by Grakel »

time0ut wrote: post #27
Grakel wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

There have been some pretty fascinating experimental weapons over the the years. For example, the H&K G11 [0] used caseless ammunition. The potential advantages of that are no need to eject a spent casing and a soldier can carry more of it since it weighs less. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heckler_%26_Koch_G11

That would be a game changer for sure.

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

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Post by m463 »

rich_sasha wrote: post #18

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

ha. I think it's like when I ride my bike. I have idle brain cycles and I start thinking about improvements I could make to the bike-riding and that's how I got a bluetooth media button to skip around in podcasts while I ride (one ear only).

this is for someone that has idle brain cycles while babysitting. (and possibly can't go anywhere and has a pi nearby)

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

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Post by dekhn »

jon-wood wrote: post #69

Please, please, do not use something like this as the only method of monitoring a child’s safety. This sort of thing has given me honest to god nightmares. My day job is managing development and infrastructure of internet connected cameras, with motion detection, notifications, and all the rest of it. Every now and again someone new will start on the marketing team and put together something about using them as baby…

I've been an SRE before, and have kids. I don't think there's any real expectation that a baby monitor is a reliable alerting system that can be depended on. There are definitely people in the thread who believe that's the case, and it also looks like some products are built to those high standards, it's not legally required, and I don't think it's even desirable.

I don't hold the people who care for my children to the standards that you would hold a video camera (IE, they're allowed to go to the bathroom with the door closed without alerting) so I can't see why I would expect it of the technology that approximated it.

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

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Post by caymanjim »

rubidium wrote: post #81
jon-wood wrote: post #69

Please, please, do not use something like this as the only method of monitoring a child’s safety. This sort of thing has given me honest to god nightmares. My day job is managing development and infrastructure of internet connected cameras, with motion detection, notifications, and all the rest of it. Every now and again someone new will start on the marketing team and put together something about using them as baby…

A baby monitor is to detect if a baby is crying not if a baby is dying. It seems like your exaggerating the user need (system engineer in HW+ SW and father of 3 here). Most use cases for baby monitors are “im relatively nearby, but want to hear if the kiddo’s waking up”. This solution is great.

I don't even know anyone who uses a baby monitor. I think we can get by. If someone relies on one to the exclusion of actually checking on their child from time to time, the failure of the monitor is probably the least of risks.

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

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Post by m463 »

all these comments.

bah.

Sounds like you need 3 devices. One windows, one linux and one possibly off-the-shelf version that is UL listed.

They should each have cellular, radio and wifi connectivity, and battery backup.

Also:

https://amzn.com/B00NL5JPZC and maybe https://amzn.com/B07CRHWBSJ

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

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Post by srtjstjsj »

geocrasher wrote: post #89

I don't have a baby, but I might have the need for a baby monitor. A sick family member who needs help sometimes in the middle of the night. Training TensorFlow to hear her yell "Help!" isn't going to do the job. For now, she reaches over to her phone, presses the home button, and says "Hey Google, call $familymember". It works, unless she can't reach her phone for any reason. I had looked at this article wondering t…

Why don't you put a shortcut the home screen to call you directly?

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

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Post by srtjstjsj »

bipson wrote: post #55
birken wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know your woodworking experience, but I don't think building a crib is dangerous at all. The safety standards are pretty straightforward and they are very clearly spelled out. And for me at least, no mass manufactured piece of furniture is even close to a minimum quality that I'd build myself. On the other hand, a crib is a particularly annoying piece of furniture to build. First, it has to be able to break d…

Where my partner usually steps in is not safety, but time. It is great if you're able to build some things yourself. But the kid and in particular your partner need your hands on deck, not on the workbench for days on, just to end up with an unfinished crib. And there are so many other, more important things to do that cannot be outsourced that easily. And once the first kid is in the house, expect interruptions. Oh,…

If you are building the crib after the baby is born, you are doing it wrong.
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