Good Morning from my Robotics Lab! This is Shadow_8472, and today, I have a small, but important step completed. Let’s get started!
The tutorial I’ve been following gave me a hiccup after compilation. I had a passing difficulty when the commands I was copying used A different version number for an ls command.
Other than that, I had a little drama copying some expected output as a command, and when I did get the correct version number and file name in the command, there were a mismatch witha number or two. I figured it was just because of the version.
In the end, the tutorial had me test everything by running Python in the virtual environment, import OpenCV, and have it report its version. I was so relieved when it gave something back that didn’t resemble an error.
Going forward, I think the next, big milestone needs to be turning on an external light when it sees my cat in the frame. Setting this goal opens up a slew of smaller goals: connecting an LED to the external pins; learning and implementing basic elements in the OpenCV API; setting up such a program to run from either a single command, an icon, or bootup.
After that, it I should probably set it up as a VNC server and place it in its rightful position where it can start learning the difference between naughty cat on the counter and hungry human in the kitchen.
This project feels like it’s gone on ar least ten times longer than I expected. It’s good to have a small victory for once.
Final question: How do you keep track of progress in long projects?