Facial recognition seemed to be a bit daunting to me. OpenCV Facial Recognition Tutorial and OpenCV Facial Recognition in Video. The process seemed very convoluted and time consuming. First you had to get the training images, put in a directory, create... Continue Reading →
Some of you may remember in my original review of the AIY voice kit, that I mentioned the fact that the ladybox needed to be activated by either a button press or by clapping. I commented at the time that someone was soon going to come up with a voice or hotword activation trigger fairly soon. Read more ...
One of the great things from being a subscriber to the Magpi magazine is the amount of quality equipment they give out for free. But to be honest I wasn't expecting what came in the issue before last which was a whole voice kit consisting of the voice hat, speaker, microphone, arcade type button, cables and of course the cardboard box. Plus a ready made sd image. Read more ...
My first idea was to get Mia Robocat to be able to turn lights on and off, turn appliances like television on as well as change channels. So I bought the following 433MHz rf receiver and transmitter which are very cheap (about £2). Read more ...
Raspberry Pi - Home Automation - Robotics - Virtual Reality - Artificial Intelligence - Computer Vision - Voice Recognition
A few years back I bought a kit from Dawn Robotics to build a robocat which we called Mia. read more ...
I don't know when or how I found out that you the signals sent by the Wii Controller can be captured by bluetooth and therefore could be used to control any device such as a robot. read more ....
I've always been interested in Virtual Reality. I remember the mini series Wild Palms in the 90s which was set in a then future 2007. read more