PiCasso Adapting Art to Viewers: Demonstration, Blog #10

4 May 2019

Art is often made to appeal to a specific set of viewers. This is the 10th blog in a series exploring the idea of using AI to recognize a viewer and adapt art to their age or interest. The intent is to encourage early art appreciation while being attractive to all household members.

In previous posts the build, facial recognition, art, and art viewer have been presented individually as the phases of the project progressed. In this post the integrated project is demonstrated and compared to the original concept. The block diagram is updated.

Updated Block Diagram

There have been several changes as the project progressed and these are reflected in the revised block diagram. The more significant changes are:

Ultrasonic sensor removed - OpenCV and the camera do a good job sensing people and an ultrasonic sensor is not required
Pi Face and physical movement not implemented - this may be implemented in future but the current design has limited space to add the feature

Video Demonstration

I tidied up the wiring a bit and now have the full package working. The integrated hardware and software is demonstrated in the following video.

Hardware Happy Hour

There is a Hardware Happy Hour monthly here in Seattle where a group gets together at one of the local brew pubs and shows things they are working on. If you are in Seattle the first Thursday of the month be sure and drop by. I had the PiCasso Art Deluxe on display last night and the retro look got a lot of attention as well as "what does it do?"...

Upcoming Work

While the original specifications and goals for the project have been largely met additional enhancements and refinements are planned. There may not be another posting for a week or two due to personal commitments and the nature of the remaining work. Upcoming work includes:

Refinement
Additional art
Final demonstration video
Completed documentation

Thanks for reading - comments and suggestions are always welcome.

Blogs in this Series

PiCasso Adapting Art to Viewers: Introduction Blog #1

PiCasso Adapting Art to Viewers: OpenCV Face Detection, Blog #2

PiCasso Adapting Art to Viewers: Cabinet Design, Blog #3

PiCasso Adapting Art to Viewers: Pi talks to Pi, Blog #4

PiCasso Adapting Art to Viewers: Grandpa Shark, Blog #5

PiCasso Adapting Art to Viewers: More on Cabinet Design, Blog #6

PiCasso Adapting Art to Viewers: New Art, Blog #7

PiCasso Adapting Art to Viewers: Mechanical Complete, Blog #8

PiCasso Adapting Art to Viewers: Displaying Art, Blog #9

PiCasso Adapting Art to Viewers: Demonstration, Blog #10

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dubbie over 5 years ago

Frank,

A great all round project. It looks good and it works. I'm impressed with the tidy wires. I'm having an untidy wire situation at the present so any ideas on how to move to a tidy wire situation would be gratefully received.

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fmilburn over 5 years ago in reply to dubbie
More thoughts....
- These cable wrappers like what is on my 3D printer:
- shabaz posted something a while back with stretchable braid cover that I can't find at the moment. I was going to order some but forgot until just now :-)
- I have gently braided stranded wire in the past. Heat shrink and hot glue can also be used to tidy things up. I super glue the dupont connectors together sometimes.
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dubbie over 5 years ago in reply to fmilburn

Frank,

I hadn't thought of hot gluing the Dupont connectors together before, or even just hot gluing the wires to the board. This seems more the approach I want to take, especially the gluing the wires directly to the board as I'm not entirely sure whee I will want them at the end so if glued directly I think they might relatively easy come apart again. I'll have to try it.

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shabaz over 5 years ago in reply to fmilburn

Hi Frank,

That's interesting cable wrap on the 3D printer, I've never seen that before. I guess that's flexible in all directions for the printer head.
This was the link to the braid stuff: Making Fancy Cables: Network Cables!
Since then, I've got a few different colors/patterns of it, and made up several test leads with it. The old telco cable is very cool - I'm going to look out for it here. Sometimes I'll strip network cable to get at the stranded or solid core stuff, but those colors are restricted.
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fmilburn over 5 years ago in reply to shabaz

Thanks for the link Shabaz, I will get some braid on order. I think this topic is an important one where good design can really make a difference.
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fmilburn over 5 years ago in reply to shabaz

Thanks for the link Shabaz, I will get some braid on order. I think this topic is an important one where good design can really make a difference.
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