I’ve been writing a fun column on machine learning and cheap hardware for O’Reilly. One of the articles was How to build an autonomous, voice-controlled, face-recognizing drone for $200. It was a really fun project, but the coolest part is that a Microsoft employee, Mark Torr took the project and improved it and then wrote up a super thorough guide for how to do it. I’m putting it here to make it easier to find his great work:
- Building an autonomous, voice-controlled, face recognizing drone
- The Voice-Controlled, Face Recognizing, Drone Journey – Part 1
- The Voice-Controlled, Face Recognizing, Drone Journey – Part 2
- The Voice-Controlled, Face Recognizing, Drone Journey – Part 3
- The Voice-Controlled, Face Recognizing, Drone Journey – Part 4
- The Voice-Controlled, Face Recognizing, Drone Journey – Part 5
- The Voice-Controlled, Face Recognizing, Drone Journey – Part 6
- The Voice-Controlled, Face Recognizing, Drone Journey – Part 7
- The Voice-Controlled, Face Recognizing, Drone Journey – Part 8
- The Voice-Controlled, Face Recognizing, Drone Journey – Part 9
- The Voice-Controlled, Face Recognizing, Drone Journey – Part 10
Here’s my youtube video of my drone
And here’s Mark’s
Pretty cool! Mark’s writing is way more thorough and much easier to follow along. Seeing his work reminds me the joy of someone taking one of my open source projects and running with it. I would love to see open source apply to more than code.
Lukas Biewald 