Raspberry Pi Robot (RaPiRo)

Ok, after spending almost a month doing many things not related to Raspberry Pi and home automation, I wish to  show one of the latest projects about RPi: RaPiRo (contraction of Raspberry Pi Robot).

This is a really nice small robot that can be 3d printed at home without too much trouble (if you wish you can also buy the full kit, but it will cost you much more).

By printing the shell and using many parts I had at home, I got this nice item at a really low cost.

But you may ask what this robot has to do with home automation.... Well, let's se how it could be used.

Face detection with Raspberry Pi

One nice thing that can be done with the latest technology is a really powerful image analysis. Also using a small unit like a Raspberry Pi can be enough to create tasks such as face detection and recognition.

These two tasks are quite similar. Detection is just the task of finding a face in an image (could be static image or a frame from a video stream). Recognition is finding a known face in a picture. 

For this post I will show you how to configure a small face detection system using a RPi and a PiCamera.