Cake is watching you: I built a camera cake
15 comments
·March 19, 2025darkwater
margalabargala
Their platform overview page does a decent job of talking about it without buzzwords.
https://www.viam.com/product/platform-overview
Basically, device drivers, data sync, control logic and ML inference all in one plus the glue to use it all together.
I agree that they would benefit from a page dedicated more towards engineers and less towards marketers.
spacebanana7
I think lightbulb cameras would be better for long term surveillance.
Naturally connected to a long term power supply and easier to hide cabled networking to avoid emissions.
Extracting faces might be more difficult, but that’s “just a software problem”.
jedbrooke
once the article started listing the software and hardware components, I was expecting a recipe for the cake too :)
bombcar
You can print images on cakes.
You could make a cake that takes pictures and gives you a cake with the picture.
hazalmestci
my next project :)
fitsumbelay
if "competition is for losers" is the axiom, "confectionary roboticist" literally takes the cake. very cool. very inspirational
shermantanktop
I appreciate the hardware side but shuddered when I read the words “cake mix.”
Atatator
"The cake is a lie"
hinkley
Better that you had said, “This is a triumph”
intrasight
Let them not eat cake
mikelward
The cake is a spy
pfdietz
Covered with eyes: biblically correct angel food cake.
What is this Viam? Looks like something like NodeRed? There are too many AI related buzzwords in the website and I am genuinely not able to understand what the product and the (opensource?) viam-server is about.