Our projects can communicate via voice, and now we are going to provide the details of adding a webcam to our system so that we can add vision to our projects. We'll use this functionality in lots of different applications; it will make our projects seem very advanced. Fortunately, adding hardware and software to provide vision to our projects is both easy and inexpensive.
Vision will open a set of possibilities for your project. These can range from simple motion detection to advance capabilities such as facial recognition, object identification, and even object following. You can also use vision to detect the world around you and avoid obstacles. Vision is central to our existence as human beings and can provide a whole new level of coolness to your projects.
In this chapter, you will learn:
- How to connect your USB camera to our BeagleBone...
