CloudACM – Page 66 – Autonomous Computational Machines

SimpleCV on the RPi

March 13, 2015 Patrick Gilfeather

Introduction – keep your eye on the ball What is CV, or Computer Vision? A search online will give you a definition, “Computer vision is a field that includes methods for acquiring, processing, analyzing, and understanding images and, in general, high-dimensional data from the real world in order to produce numerical or symbolic information, e.g., in the forms of decisions…” Basically, it is using any image sensor to influence the action of a computer. There are some fundamental sensors that…

XBee, Arduino, and RPi

March 6, 2015 Patrick Gilfeather

Introduction – over the garden wall In mid July of 2014, I had posted about a new version of RPi and XBee. In this post will cover XBee wireless technology. We will also cover how XBee can be used to link sensors to the RPi. Next, we go through linking the Arduino to the RPi. In reminiscence, a newer offering of the RPi has just been made available to the public. I may do a brief overview of the new features,…

Augmented reality

February 27, 2015 Patrick Gilfeather

Introduction – seeing what is relative This will be more of an introduction on the topic of augmented reality. It will be platform independent, but it may make reference to various types of devices. Basically it is creating a visual experience that is a combination the natural world and digital. The concept of enhancing a visual object, in real time, with detail is the idea behind augmented reality. Its easier to explain with application that to describe it outright. Grocery…