{"id":6405,"date":"2011-09-19T11:49:45","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T15:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/?p=6405"},"modified":"2012-09-14T22:11:34","modified_gmt":"2012-09-15T02:11:34","slug":"detect-train-and-close-window-with-arduino-and-webcam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/detect-train-and-close-window-with-arduino-and-webcam\/","title":{"rendered":"Detect Train and Close Window with Arduino and Webcam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[youtube\u00c2\u00a0http:\/\/www.youtube.com?v=aBhF_qfG4Qc]<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a great example of how to solve problems through automation&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>The problem, living next to a set of train tracks, and the noise that they make&#8230; \u00c2\u00a0The solution, automatically close the windows, when a train is passing through&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Using a webcam, open-source motion detection software, and an arduino, I&#8217;ve created an automatic window closer for my bedroom windows. This is a demonstration of how it works.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s a nice rig, custom built, and very functional. \u00c2\u00a0I can see some possible improvements, including sound triggering, or leveraging the web cam to detect the trains from further away&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But, it&#8217;s a great solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[youtube\u00c2\u00a0http:\/\/www.youtube.com?v=aBhF_qfG4Qc] Here&#8217;s a great example of how to solve problems through automation&#8230;. The problem, living next to a set of train tracks, and the noise that they make&#8230; \u00c2\u00a0The solution, automatically close the windows, when a train is passing through&#8230; Using a webcam, open-source motion detection software, and an arduino, I&#8217;ve created an automatic window <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/detect-train-and-close-window-with-arduino-and-webcam\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[4],"tags":[824,119,334],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6405"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The constant WPCACHEHOME must be set in the file wp-config.php and point at the WP Super Cache plugin directory. -->