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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday May 02 2018, @02:15PM   Printer-friendly
from the I'll-be-back... dept.

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Depending on which hemisphere of the Earth you're currently reading this from, summer is finally starting to fight its way to the surface. For the more "green" of our readers, that can mean it's time to start making plans for summer gardening. But as anyone who's ever planted something edible can tell you, garden pests such as squirrels are fantastically effective at turning all your hard work into a wasteland. Finding ways to keep them away from your crops can be a full-time job, but luckily it's a job nobody will mind if automation steals from humans.

[Peter Quinn] writes in to tell us about the elaborate lengths he is going to keep bushy-tailed marauders away from his tomatoes this year. Long term he plans on setting up a non-lethal sentry gun to scare them away, but before he can get to that point he needs to perfect the science of automatically targeting his prey. At the same time, he wants to train the system well enough that it won't fire on humans or other animals such as cats and birds which might visit his garden.

Source: https://hackaday.com/2018/04/30/training-the-squirrel-terminator/


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  • (Score: 2) by driverless on Thursday May 03 2018, @01:37AM

    by driverless (4770) on Thursday May 03 2018, @01:37AM (#674871)

    he wants to train the system well enough that it won't fire on humans or other animals such as cats and birds which might visit his garden

    Please put down your acorn. You have twenty seconds to comply.

    You now have fifteen seconds to comply.

    You are in direct violation of Penal Code 1.13, Section 9.

    You have five seconds to comply.

    Four... three... two... one... I am now authorized to use physical force!

    [Shredded squirrel]

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