Cake is watching you: I built a camera cake

Interact with your cake and eat it too! Hazal Mestci · Follow 11 min read · Feb 14, 2024 -- Listen Share I attended the 95th New York Hardware Meetup on Smart Cities and IoT at Viam headquarters and during the mingling period, I met a very interesting and fun attendee named Abigail. She told me she is a confectionery roboticist making bizarre cakes. Listen, two things make me very excited: desserts and robots. So I was already hooked. She showed me her website and our love story began. Knowing that Viam was hosting a holiday party soon, I proposed the idea of collaborating with Abigail to create an interactive smart cake for the occasion. We arranged a meeting to discuss the project’s scope, materials, and potential features. During our conversation, we delved into a recurring joke at Viam where everything is humorously referred to as a camera in principle. The way we define cameras at Viam is unique. An ultrasonic sensor can be a camera, a lidar can be a camera, a bump sensor can be ... Read full article.