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Cythbot, pneumatic Guitar Hero
Here’s yet another robot hoping to dominate the human race through the power of ROCK. Cythbot was built to demonstrate Cyth Systems machine vision systems. The device uses a camera to watch the Guitar...
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AVRcam for small robot machine vision
It’s neat how a project from 2004 can still be relevant if it’s done really well. This is the case with AVRcam. It uses an Atmel AVR mega8 and can do some pretty impressive things, like track up to...
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Video-based radar for your car
[Gustaf] has been playing around with machine vision for a while and sent in his latest project in on our tip line. It’s a video based car radar system that can detect cars in a camera’s field of...
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Next Week in NYC: How the Age of Machine Consciousness is Transforming Our Lives
I’ve developed or have been involved with a number of imaging technologies, everything from DIY synthetic aperture radar, the MIT thru-wall radar, to the next generation of ultrasound imaging devices....
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Interactive Dynamic Video
If a picture is worth a thousand words, a video must be worth millions. However, computers still aren’t very good at analyzing video. Machine vision software like OpenCV can do certain tasks like...
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Sort Your Candy With A Raspberry Pi And Google Cloud Vision
If you have been off trick-or-treating and returned home with an embarassment of candy, what on earth can you do to mange the problem and sort it by brand? Yes, it’s an issue that so many of us have...
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Raspberry Pi Robot That Reads Your Emotions
It’s getting easier and easier to add machine intelligence to your hacks, even to the point where you sometimes don’t have to install any special software. In this case [Dexter Industries] has added...
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Smartphone Will Destroy You at Air Hockey
Most of us carry a spectacularly powerful computer in our pocket, which we rarely use for much more than web browsing, social media, and maybe the occasional phone call. Our mobile phones are...
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Sorting Two Tonnes Of Lego
Have you ever taken an interest in something, and then found it’s got a little out of hand as your acquisitions spiral into a tidal wave of bags and boxes? [Jacques Mattheij] found himself in just that...
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JeVois Machine Vision Camera Nails Demo Mode
JeVois is a small, open-source, smart machine vision camera that was funded on Kickstarter in early 2017. I backed it because cameras that embed machine vision elements are steadily growing more...
View ArticleRubik’s Robot So Fast It Looks Like a Glitch in the Matrix
From Ferraris to F-16s, some things just look fast. This Rubik’s Cube solving robot not only looks fast, it is fast: it solved a standard cube in 380 milliseconds. Blink during the video below and...
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Bringing Augmented Reality to the Workbench
[Ted Yapo] has big ideas for using Augmented Reality as a tool to enhance an electronics workbench. His concept uses a camera and projector system working together to detect objects on a workbench, and...
View ArticleReal or Fake? Robot Uses AI to Find Waldo
The last few weeks have seen a number of tech sites reporting on a robot which can find and point out Waldo in those “Where’s Waldo” books. Designed and built by Redpepper, an ad agency. The robot arm...
View ArticleRobot Solves Rubik’s Cube With One Hand Tied Behind Its Back
For all those who have complained about Rubik’s Cube solving robots in the past by dismissing purpose-built rigs that hold the cube in a non-anthropomorphic manner: checkmate. The video below shows not...
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Leigh Johnson’s Guide To Machine Vision On Raspberry Pi
We salute hackers who make technology useful for people in emerging markets. Leigh Johnson joined that select group when she accepted the challenge to build portable machine vision units that work...
View ArticleCamera Sees Electromagnetic Interference Using an SDR and Machine Vision
It’s one thing to know that your device is leaking electromagnetic interference (EMI), but if you really want to solve the problem, it might be helpful to know where the emissions are coming from. This...
View ArticleArtificial Neural Networks Help Hack Biological Counterparts
Eyes are windows into the soul, the old saying goes. They are also pathways into the mind, as much of our brain is involved in processing visual input. This dedication to vision is partly why much of...
View ArticleAutomate the Freight: Amazon’s Robotic Packaging Lines
In the “Automate the Freight” series, I’ve concentrated on stories that reflect my premise that the killer app for self-driving vehicles will not be private passenger cars, but will more likely be the...
View ArticleMaking Autonomous Racing Drones Lean And Mean
Recently the MAVLab (Micro Air Vehicle Laboratory) at the Technical University of Delft in the Netherlands proudly proclaimed having made an autonomic drone that’s a mere 72 grams in weight. The best...
View ArticleAutomated Dice Tester Uses Machine Vision to Ensure a Fair Game
People take their tabletop games very, very seriously. [Andrew Lauritzen], though, has gone far above and beyond in pursuit of a fair game. The game in question is Star War: X-Wing, a strategy wargame...
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