A Machine Learning project made to recognize santa from live USB feed.

When it finds santa it sends out an alarm.

For this i had:

• Raspberry Pi:

  • Running a live feed from a webcam
  • Using ML to detect if 'santa' appeared
  • If santa gets spotted, capture the frame and upload it to own running cloud server.
  • Run the alarm.

• Python server:

  • Held a secure connection with crt.
  • Hit on an URL for the ESP8266 to toggle the alarm - keeping delay at minimal.

• ESP8266:

  • A Webserver that just toggled a light if we got a GET request.

This requires OpenCV to be installed and a USB camera that is connected to the device running the python script.

Included below is a picture of the structure.

Me with a picture of santa.