Charmed Labs, the team behind the well-known Pixy camera, have launched a new Kickstarter campaign for “the Vizy”. The Vizy, which is powered by a Raspberry Pi 4 (of various memory sizes), takes photographs with a 12 megapixel camera and…
Researchers from Cornell and the University of Wisconsin, Madison, have designed a wrist-mounted device that tracks the entire human hand in 3D. The device (pictured) uses the contours from the wearer’s wrist to create an abstraction of 20 finger joint…
Mike Darby, over at 314Reactor, has carried out an impressive make by re-creating the E.D.I.T.H. glasses from Spider-man Far From Home. If you haven’t seen Avengers: Endgame or Far From Home yet, stop reading and get thee to your nearest…
China-based electronics manufacturer DFRobot has just launched a new Kickstarter to fund the HuskyLens, an A.I.-enhanced camera module. Built into the camera circuit is a Kendryte K210 chip, a 400MHz dual core RISC-V 64bit processor which facilitates the following algorithms:…
For those of you who don’t follow cinema avidly, I should first of all say: There’s a new Star Wars movie out. This one’s called ‘Solo‘ and is about the early day of everyone’s favourite smuggler Han Solo. By all…
Google has launched new versions of its two AIY Projects kits, but only to the US first of all. The new kits come with a bundled Raspberry Pi Zero WH (that’s the pre-soldered version) and an SD card with the…
You’ll either love it, or you’ll hate it. That’s the most important thing about the Fribo, a Korean research project. The Fribo is a black cat-alike construction with an in-built screen that, thanks to sensors and microphones, detects when someone…
Michael Darby wanted to make something like a Star Trek combadge that would respond to voice commands. He took a Raspberry Pi Zero W, a Pimoroni Speaker pHAT, a momentary touch sensor breakout board, some power circuitry and a USB microphone…
It’s always nice when you see an engineering project that attempts to really help people, and this is one of the best I’ve come across. A recent hackathon, hackABILITY, brought together teams to concentrate on providing solutions to disabled people. One…
Dr Adrian Rosebrock has written several tutorials on deep learning with Python image searches. Well, now he’s used a Raspberry Pi and deep-learning system Keras to develop a video stream detector that alerts you when Santa Claus enters the frame and…
