[saturdayhouse] Re: Looking for suggestions for a toaster cam

2009-07-14 Thread mike begley
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'm working on a similar project to watch my laundry, and send an alert when the washer or dryer has stopped. That's not a very hard problem, and will be an amusing

[saturdayhouse] Re: Looking for suggestions for a toaster cam

2009-07-14 Thread Dan Vogel
Unless you're really looking for a vision problem to solve, or really can't modify your environment... why not use an easier sensor approach? A toaster and a microwave will draw *significantly* more power while in use than not. A simplified ammeter placed between each device and the wall should

[saturdayhouse] Re: Looking for suggestions for a toaster cam

2009-07-14 Thread Jon Dugan
Excerpts from mike begley's message of Tue Jul 14 14:29:08 -0700 2009: 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'm working on a similar project to watch my laundry, and send an alert when the washer or

[saturdayhouse] Re: Looking for suggestions for a toaster cam

2009-07-14 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 2:29 PM, mike begleys...@hell.org wrote: OpenCV works fairly well for face detection, but face recognition is still very dicey last time I checked.  A solution that may better match the current state of technology is hand-sign recognition.  If you could assign