whatbeato/debtcollector

Debt Collector 9000 is a joke hardware-and-software project with a deliberately silly premise. The README is very short, so most of what is known about the project comes from a one-line summary and a demo video linked in the repository. According to that summary, the device tracks a specific person using a webcam and shoots that person, and only that person, with some sort of projectile until they swipe a credit card. Once a card is swiped, the system responds by ordering a rubber chicken on Amazon and shipping it to Hack Club HQ. Hack Club is a well-known programming community for high-school students, and the project has the playful, irreverent flavour typical of submissions to their events. The repository is mostly Python according to its language tag, which suggests the webcam tracking and the order-placing logic are written in Python. The README does not explain how the targeting works, what hardware fires the projectile, how the credit card reader is wired in, or how the Amazon order is actually placed in code. Those details would need to be inferred from the source files, which the README does not walk through. In short, the README is sparse. It tells you the gag and points you at a screenshot and a demo video, but it does not document installation, dependencies, configuration, or any of the moving parts you would need to reproduce the build yourself.