Want to recreate the Universal Studios Magical experience? Try this out, in a couple of hours you can have your own magic wand, running on a Raspberry PI 3/4.
This uses machine learning, and background subtraction with OpenCV all on a little $35 raspberry pi. Several people have now recreated the whole exerience using this tech. It might even be better than the original, since this wand experience can be taught new tricks. ;)
See the whole build, tips, tricks and comments at: https://bloggerbrothers.com/2017/12/09/turn-on-a-lamp-with-a-gesture-ir-cam-image-processing/
- Create a fresh raspbian disk with the Desktop OS
- Run through the instructions found in: steps_taken.txt
- Download the git repository
- run:
- python magicwand.py
- cd nodeservice
- npm install
- node index.js
Blog article about this code base: https://bloggerbrothers.com/2017/12/09/turn-on-a-lamp-with-a-gesture-ir-cam-image-processing/