AI & Computer Vision
Object detection, local voice assistants, face-free people counting and edge AI.
Run a Local AI Chatbot on Raspberry Pi 5 with Ollama
Chat with small open language models fully offline — no account, no cloud.
TechnicianIdentify Birds by Their Songs with BirdNET
A 24/7 listening station that names the bird species singing in your yard.
TechnicianReal-Time Object Detection with the Raspberry Pi AI HAT+
Detect people, cars, pets and dozens of objects at high frame rates with a Hailo accelerator.
EngineerControl Lights with Hand Gestures Using MediaPipe
Count raised fingers in real time and turn them into commands: brightness, colors or smart-home scenes.
EngineerOffline Talking AI Assistant: Whisper + Ollama + Piper
Speak a question, a local model answers out loud — speech-to-text, a small LLM and text-to-speech all on one Pi 5.
EngineerAI Pet Detector: A Door That Opens Only for Your Cat
Object detection spots a cat (and refuses raccoons) before a servo unlocks the pet door.
EngineerTalking Text Reader: Camera OCR Read Aloud
Press a button, snap a page, and hear it read aloud — an accessibility helper built with Tesseract and Piper.
EngineerPrivacy-Safe People Counter for a Shop Door
Count visitors in and out with an overhead camera that keeps only numbers — no images are ever saved.
EngineerPlant Disease Classifier with a TensorFlow Lite Model
Point the camera at a leaf and an image-classification model tells you if it looks healthy or shows signs of a common disease.
EngineerRecognize Sign-Language Letters with MediaPipe
Teach the Pi your fingerspelled letters in minutes, then watch it name each one live on screen.
EngineerAI Recycling Sorter: Camera Plus Servo
Drop a can, bottle or paper on the tray and a trained model tilts a servo chute into the right bin.
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