Chicken selfies
Teej pointed to this site a couple of threads ago: chicken.photos. Yes, .photos is a top level domain now. From the about page:
The system consists of a Canon 7D, a speed flash, a Raspberry Pi, and an ultrasonic motion trigger.
Whenever a chicken (or any other animal) passes in front of the motion sensor, the Pi snaps a photo on the camera, which in turn fires the speed flash. Once the photo is taken, the Pi downloads the photo from the camera’s SD card and uploads it to our website. The photo is then tweeted and potentially minted as an NFT.
Everything is protected in waterproof housing and uses custom designed PCBs for power and signal routing between the components. It uses the gphoto2 library to interact with the camera, and CircuitPython for the firmware on the Pi.
I still do not understand NFTs. As far as I can tell, you’re buying…bragging rights?
So, they’re motion-sensor selfies. I like the sort of milky, porn-y soft focus. I reckon that’s damp on the waterproof housing. It gives them an otherworldly look.
It’s worth reading their About page. Oh, and looking at all the lurrvly chickens.
August 2, 2022 — 7:15 pm
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