Bird-Away: Raspberry Pi-powered water-based bird deterrent

Post by sahn44 » Tue, Jul 07, 2026, 11:10 AM UTC

Post by sahn44 » Tue, Jul 07, 2026, 11:31 AM UTC

wrxd wrote: post #2

> asks Claude whether birds are present I would ask Claude to write some computer vision code to detect birds and save a lot of money

Post by sgt » Tue, Jul 07, 2026, 11:38 AM UTC

sahn44 wrote: post #3

wrxd wrote: post #2

> asks Claude whether birds are present I would ask Claude to write some computer vision code to detect birds and save a lot of money

I have it down to $0.60/month which is lower than I expected I could get it with good accuracy. That's ~10k images processed.

Post by sahn44 » Tue, Jul 07, 2026, 12:14 PM UTC

HardwareLust wrote: post #6

What is the use case for this?

Post by HardwareLust » Tue, Jul 07, 2026, 1:22 PM UTC

sahn44 wrote: post #7

HardwareLust wrote: post #6

What is the use case for this?

I had a lot of nuisance birds hanging around my parents' pool Blog for more detail: https://mattsahn.github.io/bird-away-blog/