Intro
I did my Master's thesis in the Biomechatronics group at the MIT Media Lab. There are a lot of events at the Media Lab, and leftover food is always placed in the same spot with a webcam pointed at it. After the food is placed there, a button is pressed, and everybody gets a notification that there is food available. This of course starts a race for the food, and the first people to arrive get the best pickings.To create a competitive advantage for me and my research group, I built a bot that continuously monitors the foodcam and sends a notification to a Slack channel when food is detected. Additonally, you can select the food you are interested in and the bot will notify you when it is detected.
