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jfarro

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Facial recognition with attract mode demo and tutorial
« on: March 15, 2021, 03:25:17 AM »
So I'd asked about how to select a specific display...here's why I wanted that: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=geektoolkit

That video shows how to setup attract mode so that a keypress selects a specific display.  For this group that may be a bit basic, but it enables ALOT of scenarios. I show one of them in the video...facial recognition.  In that setup the huskylens is connected to an arduino leonardo, which makes sending keypresses very easy (and the huskylens makes facial recognition VERY easy).  So when it sees a face, it selects a display..and that persons game list and background show up.

You could also use python to emit keystrokes, so that would enable you to control displays externally using stuff like nfc tags (again, arduino leonardo, or reading serial streams).  I bult an MQTT nfc reader (dynatap) that i hope to hook up also...then I could scan say a ryu figure and have my fighting games show up.

The other thing I did is use the system() calls in squirrel to call to curl, and then fire off webhooks on my digital art posters...so my art frames can match my attract mode setup. I may build out a squirrel file for this..still learning the syntax.

I was going to build a new plugin for specific displays...but really I didn't know a clean way to limit how many displays it needed to show, and it was simpler to just clone the plugins. 

Hope you enjoy it and that it's something new.