RASPBERRY PI WITH CLOUD VISION AT GOOGLE I/O

Matt visited Google I/O yesterday, and sent back some pretty incredible pictures.This event looks more like a music festival than a tech conference.

He was sending pictures and excited snippets of text back to Pi Towers all throughthe event, and then, when he got home, shared this video. I’ve been so excitedabout it that I’ve had it playing on repeat, and we all thought you’d like to see it too.

This is a demo of a Raspberry Pi robot working with Google’s Cloud Vision API –and it’s got such potential for your projects.

The robot is taking pictures and sending them to the cloud, where they’re analysedand sent back in real time. There’s facial detection – along with detection of whatemotion is showing on those faces. And cloud vision offers you image recognition,so you should be able get your robot to distinguish limes from green apples. Youcan then get the robot to act on that data – so you could set it to gather apples andnot limes, for example.

We’re pretty excited about the opportunities this API offers makers of all kinds ofRaspberry Pi devices. You can learn more here – please let us know if you startintegrating it into your own projects!