Cake is watching you: I built a camera cake

(medium.com)

54 points | by hazalmestci 50 days ago

8 comments

  • darkwater 47 days ago
    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 47 days ago
      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.

  • spacebanana7 47 days ago
    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”.

  • jedbrooke 47 days ago
    once the article started listing the software and hardware components, I was expecting a recipe for the cake too :)
  • bombcar 47 days ago
    You can print images on cakes.

    You could make a cake that takes pictures and gives you a cake with the picture.

  • shermantanktop 47 days ago
    I appreciate the hardware side but shuddered when I read the words “cake mix.”
  • fitsumbelay 47 days ago
    if "competition is for losers" is the axiom, "confectionary roboticist" literally takes the cake. very cool. very inspirational
  • Atatator 47 days ago
    "The cake is a lie"
    • forks 47 days ago
      The cake has a Li-ion
      • kurthr 47 days ago
        The cake is on fire!
    • intrasight 47 days ago
      Let them not eat cake
    • mikelward 47 days ago
      The cake is a spy
    • hinkley 47 days ago
      Better that you had said, “This is a triumph”
  • pfdietz 47 days ago
    Covered with eyes: biblically correct angel food cake.