Very cool and fun project! I am a total dummy when it comes to this kind of hardware stuff and always admire people who do it.
A couple of questions:
* How / where did you get the inspiration for this? To me it's one of those things that seems "obvious" once I see it, but I wouldn't have thought of it on my own first.
* What does that thermal imaging camera "see?" Just heat? Could it detect a person vs. robot vacuum vs. house cat? (relevant for kitchen monitoring especially!)
* From the article, it looks like you're using Python? Are there good libraries available for other ecosystems as well?
I have been interested in this since I was in college. I was building a capacity counting system for our gym. Our gym used density.io and seemed like a waste of money and I though how about if we could have our own solution homegrown by students. But I couldn't get people on board, but I was able to prototype something.
The thermal camera is just a pixel array, which each pixel is denoting its temperature. Kitchens are tricky, since hot items can gravely affect the temperature readings. I use it at the entrance to check if my roomie is in or not/.
you have drivers for amg8833 in rust and c I believe, but adafruit stuff is good in python so I would say its a good place to start IOT projects! You can write your own drivers, which is quite fun!
I would suggest against it, I feel handicapped using AI sometimes. its helpful in a lot of cases eg repetitive work, but drivers feel like you need to be very careful so I would use AI to learn concepts and write things myself! Good luck!
Cool! I was just looking at how to build something similar using a presence sensor wired up to some flavor of arduino. But I was hoping to keep it 100% local with little-to-no cloud involved.
That's awesome! I love the idea of having everything self hosted, but I have various ideas like being able to share the streams on devices etc which i havent built upon. Please do share what you end up building!
