Flock-Noir
A IR Flock Detector & Wardriver with the Seeed Studio ESP32-S3 Sense. Using the OV3660 with no IR lens allows you to detect flock cameras at night through IR that will use the gps to log the location and alert via buzzer saving in a wigle format CSV to the SD Card.
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GITHUB · launched Sep 11, 2026 · 16 upvotes (top 48%) · 1 view
Niche: rf and signal detection equipment · 19 launches, 2 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Security
- Hardware & robotics
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
No This project requires custom hardware assembly, embedded micro-controller programming (ESP32-S3), physical camera optical modification (removing IR cut filter), and real-time computer vision on embedded hardware.
What it would actually take: Building this requires custom embedded C++/FreeRTOS firmware for the ESP32-S3, integrating an OV3660 camera module without an IR filter, a GPS UART module, and an SD card interface. The hard part is tuning real-time embedded computer vision algorithms to filter false positives from headlights while reliably detecting infrared strobe pulses from automated license plate reader (ALPR) systems in low-light environments. Deep hardware prototyping, electronics assembly, and embedded signal processing expertise are required.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 34 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #20 of 35 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 298 days after the earliest competitor.
- FlockDetour · ph · 2026-10-06 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Hidden Camera Detector · ph · 2026-09-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Automated license plate reader coverage in the USA · hn · 2025-12-10 · 239 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- VolAnti · hn · 2026-09-09 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- dronemagnav · github · 2026-09-12 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- Glasses to detect smart-glasses that have cameras · hn · 2025-11-28 · 509 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- ESP32-ATV · github · 2026-10-14 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- Unseencue · ph · 2026-11-08 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.35
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