Edge

Today when notions such as deep learning, machine learning and even artificial Intelligence (AI) is reaching the mainstream media it is easy to think that an AI revolution is just around the corner. Many people forget that AI have always been “just around the corner” for the last 60 years and the place where we stand today build on many incremental improvements as well as many false starts. It's easy to forget that there already exists many true and proven techniques for image processing that does not require the latest advances in deep learning, and that under the right circumstances can be better to use.

Sometimes you have analog devices that you want to interface to your data processing pipeline but that you cannot retro-fit with a digital interface. Examples can range from reading a pressure valve in an expensive machine to simply trying to tell the time from this old-style alarm clock. Let’s see if we can do this using Sympathy for Data, a web camera, a 3D printer and a few LED’s that was laying around.