Project Leroy - Lessons Learned Part 3
Three camera enclosures for a backyard AI rig: fragile bare module, wobbly printable arm, then a proper housing with tripod legs that finally survived kids, pets, and Minnesota weather.…
Project Leroy - Lessons Learned Part 2
Survival tactics for a Pi 3 running OpenCV in a tight loop: swallow exceptions with logging, refuse saves when disk crosses 95%, resize frames for inference while mapping boxes back to full-res captures, and wire it up as a systemd service.…
Project Leroy - Lessons Learned Part 1
Why classifying whole frames failed, how object detection plus bounding-box cutouts fixed it, and which two Coral models I paired for “is there a bird?” then “which bird?”…
Project Leroy
Named for a grandfather who loved feeders and cuckoo clocks: Raspberry Pi, Google Coral USB, and a camera trying to learn which visitors are actually birds—and which photos are worth posting.…