Tag: scarecrow
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Plymouth university students design and build ‘scarecrow’ robots to protect wildlife
Plymouth State University (PSU) students in their “Spring 2023 Industrial Robotics” course began work on a multi-semester project to bring new life to a pair of robots belonging to Casella Waste Systems, which has used six of these robots to ward off wildlife at their Bethlehem, New Hampshire landfill for roughly the past four years.…
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Raspberry Pi could help farmers manage crops better and more cheaply than current systems, say scientists
Raspberry Pi may be strongly associated with hobbyists, but now it’s been recruited as a farm hand. Inventors of the credit-card sized computers have shipped more than 5 million units at less than $50 each since launch in 2012. Most of them have found their way into toy cars and other devices. But now a team of…