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Raspberry Pi Car Speed Detector

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187 points mhss | 1 comments | 17 May 16 15:00 UTC | HN request time: 2.017s | source
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post_break ◴[17 May 16 18:02 UTC] No.11715818[source]▶
I need a raspberry pi that can monitor parking spots so I know if I have a spot waiting for me when I get off of work. Of course I don't know how to code so it will probably never happen.

edit: I meant parking spaces outside of my apartment.

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mandeepj ◴[17 May 16 18:13 UTC] No.11715921[source]▶
You at least need a drone with camera for it. You would need to implement some object recognition on the images transmitted by the drone
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post_break ◴[17 May 16 18:15 UTC] No.11715935[source]▶
Wut. The parking spaces are viewable by my apartment window.
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lightbritefight ◴[17 May 16 18:19 UTC] No.11715969[source]▶
Point a camera at the spots when unoccupied.Specify the spots exact coordinates to the camera. Set color as baseline. If the color changes by 50% or more, they are occupied. Send alert when all occupied, or when not all occupied.

Now, learn to code it.

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1. oh_sigh ◴[17 May 16 20:18 UTC] No.11717052[source]▶
You could also zoom in so you would be looking at a car if it is parked there, and then upload the image to the microsoft caption bot service. It's pretty good at recognizing cars already, and you can just search the result for the word "car"