Mosquito Laser Trap
A patio-ready mosquito defense concept: AI vision tracks flight inside a sealed chamber, a locked optical stage stays enclosed, and the product monetizes through safe materials sourcing.
Mesh hunter turret
A pan-tilt turret with a low-voltage racket-style mesh head. Same class of zapper used in handheld bug rackets — but aimed by the AI instead of by your wrist.
Bring your own 360 camera
Already have a 360 cam at home? Point the hunter at it. We pipe the feed in via USB-UVC, RTSP or ONVIF so you get instant panoramic coverage without buying new optics.
How a sealed trap actually hunts
The laser doesn’t chase the mosquito around your house. The trap draws mosquitoes toward itself using the same mechanism that Katchy / Dynatrap / Flowtron use — UV lure and optional CO₂ + skin-scent, with a fan pulling air inward. Once the mosquito is inside the sealed chamber, AI sees it and the zap only happens in that closed volume.
Mesh hunter turret
Patio-safeYour 360 camera sees the room, a Raspberry Pi runs tracking, and a 2-axis servo gimbal swings a consumer-grade racket mesh towards the mosquito. Pet/face detection locks the mesh out, and the hunter never fires above shoulder height.
- ▸Uses a consumer bug-racket mesh pair (proven safety envelope).
- ▸2× hobby servos + 3D-printed gimbal carry the head.
- ▸360 camera feeds panoramic frames into a tiny tracker.
- ▸Pet/human detection cuts power to the mesh in under 50 ms.
Contained laser trap
Sealed stageA closed-loop enclosed product. Vision aims the laser only on targets that are physically trapped inside the chamber. Treated as a Class-1-style product target with hardware interlocks, beam dump and key switch — never used for open-air firing.
- ▸Sealed acrylic cavity — no exposed beam path.
- ▸Beam dump, matte interior, key switch and lid interlock.
- ▸Fan capture draws mosquitoes into the chamber.
- ▸Designed as an enclosed product, not an open-air rig.
Sentinel / photonic fence
Advanced — AI lockoutCeiling-mount rig with a 360 cam + galvanometer aiming. A low-power visible laser (405nm) is used for aim visualization. A separate 1550nm eye-safer kill burst only fires when: (a) target confidence >0.95, (b) no humans/pets detected in frame, (c) PIR sensor clear, (d) aim vector is within -30° of nadir, (e) dwell cap 30ms. Fails closed. Bench-test mode disables the kill laser entirely.
- ▸Ceiling-mount only — aim cone clamped to -30° downward (never horizontal).
- ▸Redundant sensors: vision + PIR + time-of-flight cross-check every frame.
- ▸Low-power visible aim laser for targeting; separate 1550nm eye-safer burst for kill.
- ▸Fail-closed: any sensor dropout, reflective surface, or low confidence cuts the kill laser.
Fast vision
Global-shutter camera path for detecting tiny flight motion without exposing the user to the optical stage.
AI tracking
Prediction loop estimates flight path and only arms the contained stage when the chamber state is valid.
Interlocked enclosure
Lid sensor, key switch and independent cutoff keep hazardous energy unavailable outside the sealed chamber.
Contained laser stage
Laser remains a product feature, but the app treats it as an enclosed Class-1-style product target, not open-air firing.
Fan capture assist
Airflow pulls insects into the chamber so the optical stage never needs to point into the room.
Edge compute
Local inference, event logs and watchdog timers keep the product responsive without cloud dependency.
MVP path
Non-negotiable safety
Safe wavelength is not enough by itself. Power, exposure duration, reflections, enclosure, interlocks and user access define whether this can be a real product.
- ▸No exposed beam path; the active stage lives inside a sealed chamber.
- ▸Beam dump and matte non-reflective interior are required.
- ▸Hardware interlock, key switch and watchdog cutoff are independent of app logic.
- ▸No open-air firing in a home, and no aiming at people, pets, windows or reflective surfaces.