The HC-SR04 is a cheap and easy to use sensor, used to measure distance with ultrasound. It can be used in many projects where you trigger an action based on an object or person entering an area, like an “alarm”, as I showed in my previous post. Also, you often see this sensor as part of more interesting projects such as robots, like this one.
In this post we will learn how to develop a Kodi add-on in Python. You can run the add-on in OpenELEC or LibreELEC on the Orange Pi or Raspberry Pi, or as a matter of fact on any device that can run Kodi. The add-on will read data from various sources, such as an API for the current Bitcoin price, and show it on the main screen.
In this project I will show you how to capture images from a webcam, detect faces in those images, train a face recognition model and then try it out on video stream from a webcam. The code here can be the basis for many other projects that contain any element of personal authentication.