pi_to_potter

Want to recreate the Universal Studios Magical experience? Try this out, in a couple of hours you can have your own magic wand, running on a Raspberry PI 3/4.

This uses machine learning, and background subtraction with OpenCV all on a little $35 raspberry pi. Several people have now recreated the whole exerience using this tech. It might even be better than the original, since this wand experience can be taught new tricks. ;)

See the whole build, tips, tricks and comments at: https://bloggerbrothers.com/2017/12/09/turn-on-a-lamp-with-a-gesture-ir-cam-image-processing/

The simplest way to get started:

• Create a fresh raspbian disk with the Desktop OS
• Run through the instructions found in: steps_taken.txt
• Download the git repository
• run:
  • python magic_wand.py

To start the support webpage:

• cd nodeservice
• npm install
• node index.js

To get LOTS more detail:

Blog article about this code base: https://bloggerbrothers.com/2017/12/09/turn-on-a-lamp-with-a-gesture-ir-cam-image-processing/