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Getting Started with Python for the Internet of Things

By : Tim Cox, Steven Lawrence Fernandes, Sai Yamanoor, Srihari Yamanoor, Prof. Diwakar Vaish
Book Image

Getting Started with Python for the Internet of Things

By: Tim Cox, Steven Lawrence Fernandes, Sai Yamanoor, Srihari Yamanoor, Prof. Diwakar Vaish

Overview of this book

This Learning Path takes you on a journey in the world of robotics and teaches you all that you can achieve with Raspberry Pi and Python. It teaches you to harness the power of Python with the Raspberry Pi 3 and the Raspberry Pi zero to build superlative automation systems that can transform your business. You will learn to create text classifiers, predict sentiment in words, and develop applications with the Tkinter library. Things will get more interesting when you build a human face detection and recognition system and a home automation system in Python, where different appliances are controlled using the Raspberry Pi. With such diverse robotics projects, you'll grasp the basics of robotics and its functions, and understand the integration of robotics with the IoT environment. By the end of this Learning Path, you will have covered everything from configuring a robotic controller, to creating a self-driven robotic vehicle using Python. • Raspberry Pi 3 Cookbook for Python Programmers - Third Edition by Tim Cox, Dr. Steven Lawrence Fernandes • Python Programming with Raspberry Pi by Sai Yamanoor, Srihari Yamanoor • Python Robotics Projects by Prof. Diwakar Vaish
Table of Contents (37 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Image processing using a Raspberry Pi Zero


The Raspberry Pi Zero is an inexpensive piece of hardware that is powered by a 1 GHz processor. While it is not powerful to run certain advanced image processing operations, it can help you learn the basics on a $25 budget (the cost of Raspberry Pi Zero and a camera).

Note

We recommend using a 16 GB card (or higher) with your Raspberry Pi Zero in order to install the image processing tool set discussed in this section.

For example, you could use a Raspberry Pi Zero to track a bird in your backyard. In this chapter, we are going to discuss different ways to get started with image processing on the Raspberry Pi Zero.

In order to test some examples using the camera in this section, a Raspberry Pi Zero v1.3 or later is required. Check the back of your Raspberry Pi Zero to verify the board version:

Identifying your Raspberry Pi Zero's version

OpenCV

OpenCV is an open source toolbox that consists of different software tools developed for image processing. OpenCV...