212: You Are in Seaworld

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Kwabena Agyeman joined us to talk about making OpenMV (@OpenMVCam), an easy-to-use camera and control module with built-in machine vision functions, all interfaced via MicroPython.

To learn more about computer vision, Kwabena suggested looking at PyImageSearch or reading the April tags code as it is a good introduction to image manipulation and matrix operations.

Some other interesting links:

• Ferrari World, view from satellite
• Cloud Atlas (on Netflix)
• DIY Robotics from Chris Anderson: DIY Robocars
• Kwabena worked on the CMUCam (version 3)
• The Amp Hour had a good episode about MicroPython
• Elecia likes this introduction to linear algebra, matrix operations, and singular value decomposition (SVD)
• OpenMV on Hackaday.io and for sale at SparkFun
• The future of OpenMV might include Google’s MobileNets
• Kwabena gave a talk about the OpenMV manufacturing difficulties at the Hackaday Supercon 2016 and he plans to be there for Supercon 2017 (Pasadena, November 11th and 12th)