Technical Function

What’s the best way to test offline computer vision? An animatronic eye, of course. Rob Zwetsloot takes a look

Sean Glendinning

It’s weird how eyes can be a bit creepy – whether they’re animated incorrectly or just sitting on their own. Anyway, here’s a very big, single eye that will keep track of you. “This robot, named ‘Technical Function’, is… used to test out offline computer vision, this time with the much more powerful Raspberry Pi 4,” Sean Glendinning, its creator, explains to us. “It also features a USB microphone array attached to its head, two speakers attached to the sides, and its most striking feature: an animatronic eye where a Raspberry Pi Camera is mounted. I originally wanted to test out offline speech recognition as well, but I haven’t had any good results. It also includes a real time clock, an accelerometer to sense orientation, and a power circuit that…

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