👁️ Module 05 · Intermediate
Computer Vision Basics
Can you teach a basic camera to know the difference between a hotdog and not a hotdog?... ✨ PAN'S RULE: If it's not chaotic, it's not magic! ✨
Give your machine eyes! Use a simple camera to detect faces, colors, and motion using Python and OpenCV.
⚠️ SAFETY DIRECTIVE: We only work with safe 5V USB
power or AA/AAA batteries. Keep the magic safely low-voltage!
Basic OpenCV
Using cameras and computer vision libraries like OpenCV, robots can look at a stream of pixels and understand: "That is a red ball, and I should follow it."
⚡ HACKER CHALLENGE
The Color Filter
How does a robot isolate a single color (like a red stop sign) from a messy background?
💻 Sandbox: Implementation
Waiting for execution...
🔗 Learn More
Want to dive deeper into this topic? Check out these external resources:
- Teachable Machine - Train a vision model in 5 minutes!
- Pi Camera Guide - See the world through a Raspberry Pi.