Schlagwort: security camera

  • Mayank Sinha’s home security project

    Mayank Sinha’s home security project

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    Yesterday, I received an email from someone called Mayank Sinha, showing us the Raspberry Pi home security project he’s been working on. He got in touch particularly because, he writes, the Raspberry Pi community has given him “immense support” with his build, and he wanted to dedicate it to the commmunity as thanks.

    Mayank’s project is named Asfaleia, a Greek word that means safety, certainty, or security against threats. It’s part of an honourable tradition dating all the way back to 2012: it’s a prototype housed in a polystyrene box, using breadboards and jumper leads and sticky tape. And it’s working! Take a look.

    Asfaleia DIY Home Security System

    An IOT based home security system. The link to the code: https://github.com/mayanksinha11/Asfaleia

    Home security with Asfaleida

    Asfaleia has a PIR (passive infrared) motion sensor, an IR break beam sensor, and a gas sensor. All are connected to a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B, the latter two via a NodeMCU board. Mayank currently has them set up in a box that’s divided into compartments to model different rooms in a house.

    A shallow box divided into four labelled "rooms", all containing electronic components

    All the best prototypes have sticky tape or rubber bands

    If the IR sensors detect motion or a broken beam, the webcam takes a photo and emails it to the build’s owner, and the build also calls their phone (I like your ringtone, Mayank). If the gas sensor detects a leak, the system activates an exhaust fan via a small relay board, and again the owner receives a phone call. The build can also authenticate users via face and fingerprint recognition. The software that runs it all is written in Python, and you can see Mayank’s code on GitHub.

    Of prototypes and works-in-progess

    Reading Mayank’s email made me very happy yesterday. We know that thousands of people in our community give a great deal of time and effort to help others learn and make things, and it is always wonderful to see an example of how that support is helping someone turn their ideas into reality. It’s great, too, to see people sharing works-in-progress, as well as polished projects! After all, the average build is more likely to feature rubber bands and Tupperware boxes than meticulously designed laser-cut parts or expert joinery. Mayank’s YouTube channel shows earlier work on this and another Pi project, and I hope he’ll continue to document his builds.

    So here’s to Raspberry Pi projects big, small, beginner, professional, endlessly prototyped, unashamedly bodged, unfinished or fully working, shonky or shiny. Please keep sharing them all!

    Website: LINK

  • Security Camera Captures Ghost Walking Right Through a Gate at Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion

    Security Camera Captures Ghost Walking Right Through a Gate at Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion

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    Countless stories about certain areas of Disney Parks being haunted have circulated throughout the years. Some theories say that Walt Disney himself walks the park after it closes each night, to this day, and you’re about to see why. A video that first emerged a few years ago, shot from the security control room after the park was closed, show a vaporous figure walking down the Haunted Mansion pathway and right through a gate.

    In 1961, handbills announcing a 1963 opening of the Haunted Mansion were given out at Disneyland’s main entrance. Construction began a year later, and the exterior was completed in 1963. The attraction was previewed in a 1965 episode of Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color, but the attraction itself would not open until 1969. The six-year delay owed heavily to Disney’s involvement in the New York World’s Fair in 1964-1965 and to an attraction redesign after Walt’s death in 1966. The mansion opened to all guests August 12, 1969.