eye-blink-box

A Raspberry Pi camera project using computer vision to determine a blinking eye and responding with a gif on an lcd display and a sound

Get it up and running

Project is developed in a Python virtual environment

cd eye-blink/
workon cv
python final_wink_detection.py

Hardware

BOM

• Raspberry Pi 4/3b+
• Raspberry Pi Camera Rev 1.3 or better
• 1.8 inch SPI TFT display 128 x 160 pixels
• old headphones or music box
• 1x double-switch

Wiring

Software setup

1. Setup your Raspberry Pi with the latest OS with Desktop environment
2. Follow this tutorial from PyImageSearch to setup all required libraries for the face recognition.
3. Install adafruit libraries for the lcd display

workon cv
#make sure you use python3
pip3 install RPI.GPIO
pip3 install adafruit-blinka
pip3 install adafruit-io
pip3 install adafruit-circuitpython-rgb-display