A New Tool Part 3

Good Morning from my Robotics Lab! This is Shadow_8472, and today, I am continuing on the path to building an anti feline century. Let’s get started.

Last week, I talked about boat port stuff, this week because I had Tango over to review that project. This last week, I actually made a contact with what I hope will be a regular, new resource for help on projects. My long term goals include getting a comments section where people can crowd solve the problem, but as of this writing, I don’t think I’ve had a comment in the first whole year. Maybe I don’t have that set up, but for now, I’m mapping the project up.

So far, I’ve gotten most of the electronics I’ll need, barring the highly specialized speaker/transducer and supporting circuitry; I’ve printed the bottom half of the case and figured on about the orientation everything will be; and I’ve started on the tutorials. Apparently, I forgot Shift-Middle-click moves the camera’s focus point around the scene.

The next step is still to finish learning Blender well enough to model the upper half of the case. Putting the hardware all together will follow after I have something to make the sound. After that, I have software development. I’ll need to research how to use OpenCV and figure out how to make it identify a cat. Once that’s reliable, I can hook up the sound and set it up for operation. Once the prototype is proving effective, I can figure out just how little power in a machine I need and I can build a final version to free up my prototype. The Pi and its camera will stay with the prototype. Any sound setup will be moved to the more permanent unit.

Potential problems include the need to reprint the case with ABS plastic for its higher temperature tolerance. After the prototype has proven itself, the cat in question will likely be scared of the case if he doesn’t challenge it.

Final Question: What possible problems am I missing that I should anticipate?