We have a kitchen at work that is not easily monitored by any of us -- so we often forget things in the toaster / microwave.
I'd like to set up a webcam that will watch the microwave / toaster to report things like: is the microwave on? (based on the internal light) and is the toaster toasting? (based on the position of the toast lever--it's a toaster oven, so using an IR beam that would be interrupted by the toast popping up won't work.) I'm also hoping to use OpenCV to do face recognition, to support the following workflow: Someone enterthe kitchen, gets their lunch: * put the lunch in microwave * smile at camera * start microwave Then, when the microwave turns off, an app pairs the last face seen with a list of ICQ numbers, and sends an IM/email/pmsg to the person who was using the microwave. I need some advice on what hardware to get, and how to arrange the camera. I'd like to mount the camera so that it doesn't see more than is necessary (possibly using two cameras... but they'd have to be cheap). A magnetic mount to the adjacent fridge would be ideal, but poses problems for snapping face pictures, since I expect that the camera position will be critical to detect changes in the toaster lever. Furthermore, the nearest computer is more than the maximum distance for USB, so something else will be necessary. We don't have 80211.b (yet), so that's probably out too. Anyhow, I'm looking for suggestions. The computer doing the work will be linux-based, but I think that's about it for requirements. Thanks! --Rogan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Website: http://saturdayhouse.org/ Post: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
