This Raspberry Pi computer can shoot actual laser beams
A more advanced version is in the works
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A PhD student from Russia has used aRaspberry Piand some other innocent pieces of tech to design an innovative solution that neutralizes mosquitos using lasers.
Rakhmatulin Ildar from South Ural State University says he lost his cool when he learnt that mosquitoes kill over 700,000 people every year, and decided to do something about it.
Ildar’s solution was to mount a 1-watt laser on a Raspberry Pi 3 and train it with machine vision and neural networks until it became a ruthless mosquito hunting killer automaton.
On a rampage
Tom’s Hardwareintercepted Rakhmatulin’s frighteningly detailed build instructions, noting that the project uses the Raspberry Pi Camera module to detect mosquitoes in its vicinity.
When one is spotted, the Pi asks a connected galvanometer to adjust the mirrors and orient the laser. Once the lasers are in position, the Pi powers it up and delivers a potent burst to zap the flying creten out of existence.
Rakhmatulin has shared details on how he created a convolutional neural network (CNN) to detect mosquitoes. To perfect the AI network he trained it using aGeForce GTX 10606GB GPU with theRyzen 5 3600CPU.
He’s also published details about his use of the OpenCV library to track an identified mosquito and predict its flight pattern.
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Buoyed by the success of his research, Rakhmatulin now wants to build a more powerful version that can track and eliminate more than two mosquitoes in a second.
Via:Tom’s Hardware
With almost two decades of writing and reporting on Linux, Mayank Sharma would like everyone to think he’sTechRadar Pro’sexpert on the topic. Of course, he’s just as interested in other computing topics, particularly cybersecurity, cloud, containers, and coding.
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