She hacked her doorbell camera to rank Halloween costumes — and open-sourced it
jeff_weinstein · x · 2026-10-31
Developer alanaagoyal wired her doorbell camera feed to a Raspberry Pi running vision models to detect and classify trick-or-treaters in real time, revealing the most popular costumes in her neighborhood. This year she open-sourced the project: it runs fully locally on supported hardware, or can be set up with Stripe, Supabase, OpenRouter and Vercel for a hosted version — a ready-to-copy edge-vision starter kit.
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