18 months ago I tried to teach my Raspberry Pi4 robot to use TFlite to recognize American Sign Language. (0% accuracy)

Since then my robot upgraded to a Pi5 and an Oak-D-W spatial camera with a dedicated neural net processor, AND I learned that Google gave out $500,000 to encourage folks to teach their computers to recognize ASL.

https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/asl-fingerspelling

Hopefully this will give my robot ASL as an input modality.

#ASL #robot #machinelearning #OakDlite #RaspberryPi #KaggleChallenge #GoPiGo3

On my mind? Sadness, Frustration, Exhaustion

After investing 3 months/over 1000 hours in the #create3robot, I am exhausted, frustrated, and very sad to have hit a wall in my dream for Wali - the wallfollower looking for intelligence.

iRobotEducation gave a valiant effort but was not able to prevent the bot from having seizures when I ran #RTABmap with the #OakDlite stereo depth camera.

I am so bummed out.