[HN Gopher] Cake is watching you: I built a camera cake
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       Cake is watching you: I built a camera cake
        
       Author : hazalmestci
       Score  : 47 points
       Date   : 2025-03-19 17:44 UTC (3 days ago)
        
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       | spacebanana7 wrote:
       | I think lightbulb cameras would be better for long term
       | surveillance.
       | 
       | Naturally connected to a long term power supply and easier to
       | hide cabled networking to avoid emissions.
       | 
       | Extracting faces might be more difficult, but that's "just a
       | software problem".
        
       | pfdietz wrote:
       | Covered with eyes: biblically correct angel food cake.
        
       | jedbrooke wrote:
       | once the article started listing the software and hardware
       | components, I was expecting a recipe for the cake too :)
        
       | bombcar wrote:
       | You can print images on cakes.
       | 
       | You could make a cake that takes pictures and gives you a cake
       | with the picture.
        
         | hazalmestci wrote:
         | my next project :)
        
       | Atatator wrote:
       | "The cake is a lie"
        
         | forks wrote:
         | The cake has a Li-ion
        
           | kurthr wrote:
           | The cake is on fire!
        
         | mikelward wrote:
         | The cake is a spy
        
         | intrasight wrote:
         | Let them not eat cake
        
         | hinkley wrote:
         | Better that you had said, "This is a triumph"
        
       | darkwater wrote:
       | What is this Viam? Looks like something like NodeRed? There are
       | too many AI related buzzwords in the website and I am genuinely
       | not able to understand what the product and the (opensource?)
       | viam-server is about.
        
         | margalabargala wrote:
         | Their platform overview page does a decent job of talking about
         | it without buzzwords.
         | 
         | https://www.viam.com/product/platform-overview
         | 
         | Basically, device drivers, data sync, control logic and ML
         | inference all in one plus the glue to use it all together.
         | 
         | I agree that they would benefit from a page dedicated more
         | towards engineers and less towards marketers.
        
       | shermantanktop wrote:
       | I appreciate the hardware side but shuddered when I read the
       | words "cake mix."
        
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