How I taught my dog to text me selfies
summary
A working prototype that gets a dog to press a big red button and send a selfie: a $70 Arduino Yun (runs Python) triggers FSWebcam to take a photo from a $30 USB webcam, uploads the image to Dropbox, then uses Twilio + Dropbox to send an MMS. Demo shows it works end-to-end with ~10–60s delivery delay; phone number costs ~$1/month and MMS ~2¢. Code reuses helper libraries and simple shell calls.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:30Building Blocks
- 3:25The Arduino
- 4:50The Hardware
- 6:20Twilio
- 8:20Sending a text
- 16:20Sending MMS
- 19:20Taking a picture
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