Flying Squirrels - Keep Them out of Bird Feeder with Artificial Intelligence

This is a summary of how my Squirrel Squirter works:

This happens every 5 minutes:

1) Take a picture of the bird feeder

2) Upload the picture to Amazon's Rekognition API for analysis. The API will return immediately and tell me if there is a squirrel.

3) If a squirrel is detected, I connect via Wi-Fi to my Arduino circuit and send a squirt command.

4) The Arduino circuit then switches on the sprinkler for 3 seconds, scaring the squirrel away

https://github.com/Michael-Vetter/squirrel-ai-squirter