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Raspberry Pi for Kill Mosquitoes by Laser

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Re: Raspberry Pi for Kill Mosquitoes by Laser

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Post by ClumsyPilot »

sokoloff wrote: post #3

> More than 700 thousand human deaths I don’t think I’ve ever in my 40 and nine years on the planet seen numbers of this scale written in mixed numeric and textual form. It’s not like 700 kilometers, where you could at least argue this is the case vs the SI unit, but where a kilometer is a useful unit for communication anyway. The natural unit here is a human life, not a thousand human lives. There are a several othe…

Every now and then I read "has left-wing inclusion/diversity has gone too far?"

And then I see comments that basically amount to: "haha, dumb foreigners can't speak english LOL"

Re: Raspberry Pi for Kill Mosquitoes by Laser

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Post by tpmx »

helsinkiandrew wrote: post #12

This work (I think) worked with the mosquitos 30cm away with a servo scanning Pi Camera (1080p) and a 1W laser. To work in the real world - cover a whole room or terrace - presumably a much higher resolution camera (or much faster scanning system) would be required. Even a 1W laser is dangerous to eyesight, if it was being fired at targets mingling with people. The system could be mounted on small drones that would p…

I started thinking about something similar last summer to deal with aggressive flies from a nearby farm.

Perhaps it's possible to make something that's kinda safe for eyesight if you make it track and light up the fly/mosquito for e.g. 50 seconds instead of 0.5 seconds.

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Post by avian »

jasonlenik wrote: post #16
helsinkiandrew wrote: post #12

This work (I think) worked with the mosquitos 30cm away with a servo scanning Pi Camera (1080p) and a 1W laser. To work in the real world - cover a whole room or terrace - presumably a much higher resolution camera (or much faster scanning system) would be required. Even a 1W laser is dangerous to eyesight, if it was being fired at targets mingling with people. The system could be mounted on small drones that would p…

I agree, there needs to be multiple orders of magnitude improvements in HW&SW, as well as domain specific dataset development for this to work at all. I can imagine using a very accurate image segmentation algo to analyze the background and thereby prevent shooting lasers at vulnerable targets, but it's still hard to see how this is a good idea. A 1W laser is even more dangerous than you say. It is powerful enough to…

1 W laser is in the “a diffuse reflection can do damage” safety class. It’s the kind of laser where you lock doors to the optics lab to prevent people without eye protection accidentally entering when the laser is in operation.

Having a computer point-and-shoot one at random directions in free air is just madness. There is zero discussion of human safety of such a system in the paper.

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Post by k_sze »

tyingq wrote: post #11

Good for a bit of mosquito schadenfreude...an experiment to create exploding mosquitos: https://entomologytoday.org/2020/03/19/when-a-mosquito-cant-...

Oh, wow. A few years ago I actually posted a question about that on Biology.SE: https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/3263/do-mosquito...

Re: Raspberry Pi for Kill Mosquitoes by Laser

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Post by yholio »

tyingq wrote: post #11

Good for a bit of mosquito schadenfreude...an experiment to create exploding mosquitos: https://entomologytoday.org/2020/03/19/when-a-mosquito-cant-...

So instead of having a mosquito bite, you now have a zombie mosquito attached to you continuing to suck and spill a large multiple of normal volume.
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