Posts tagged python

- Ideia: know when a room is being used and make a log of how much was used.
- Why: This is for a room used by several people, but they can only use if someone from the administration is there to open the door (aka inside the room). Then I’ve this idea for a system that warns/tell users if there is anyone on the room.
- Resources: I only used what was available in that room and that’s was an old webcam and an old pc.
- Location: Room (in basement, so you need to have the light on every time you use)

I already had some basic’s about python and I never use openCV, so this project was all an excuse to learn a little more.

Tools: Python (w/ openCV) + Bash + Twitter + iOS Notification + GoogleCal  

Python (w/opencv) | https://www.python.org/ |  http://opencv.org/

Logs & Notification (Twitter), iOS Notification (Prowl), Calendar (GoogleCal):
- I was already using all this programs on my system, so I used all the tools that I already made (so just an interaction with my bash script)

Crontab - Since is an old pc, I made so it check/run every “x” minutes.

The result: 
- Render the img from the webcam, using a threshold that transforms the picture in black & white and then I make a 3 regions, 2 for control and one for the whites. 

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