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So I hammered out and explored a bit with Raspberry Pi B (or whatever version it is) with my son and took it as a learning opportunity to learn github and some more Visual Studio with our raspiAI[^] project.
The goal was to do as much cool stuff, somewhat AI based, with the raspberry pi as possible. For the most part, it was fun and I had it all working except facial recognition but the camera was working. It made me sad how difficult it was to compile the CORRECT version of OpenCV that worked with the python code I wanted to use for facial rec.
So the Raspberry Pi 3 comes out and Microsoft has its IoT OS I was really eager to learn and explore. The goal of this was to step it up a notch, especially now that I can use anything .Net right? Not exactly, is what I learned last weekend. For this Pi 3, I want it to be a home-robot that can do facial recognition, text-2-speech, speech-2-text, and sit on a Lego NXT carbot and control it. I couldn't find a .Net NXT library that worked with IoT, so I couldn't proceed using the IoT OS so I switched to Raspbian as I know python NXT code exists. So I am now stuck trying to build and compile all of the prerequisites for the NXT code, which if I remember right, I got mad because linux errors kept telling me things are wrong and I decided to play some Dirty Bomb instead. So back using Raspbian, I lose the cool text-2-speech Microsoft has (along with its other cool AI APIs) and I am still learning how to get the Raspbian text-2-speech voice not start half-way thru the text and a somewhat decent sounding voice. I don't even want to think about getting OpenCV installed and compiled but it is the only way to get facial rec going on the Raspberry Pi 3 from what I can see.
Anyway, I can't believe things are still so difficult to get the basic AI programs to work on these devices. I am wondering if others have a similar opinion or find it really easy to get a raspberry pi listening and talking and recognizing faces.
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I didn't get very far with that whole Windows 10 IoT distro. They force you to log in with your Microsoft account, the website is terrible to navigate (I found downloads in like three different places and I couldn't tell which is the OS I'm looking for), and then as far as I can tell they don't let you download an ISO, you have to install some stupid program that downloads the ISO directly to your ISO card each time you want to install a copy.
Did I get all of that right? Is that all of the pain that one has to go through just to get a copy of the OS?
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Bootking wrote: Did I get all of that right? Is that all of the pain that one has to go through just to get a copy of the OS?
I thought the same thing but it isn't an iso download, as far as I know. It went down something like this....
You need Windows 10 to download an app that downloads then installs Windows IoT onto the raspi. Once installed, you open a web browser to connect to it and it has some neat features but nothing jaw-dropping. There is no desktop or anything that looks like Windows or Raspbian; you use Visual Studio on your Windows 10 and that places the app onto the raspi when it is built.
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It's 1975[^] all over again! 
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Mike Mullikin wrote: It's 1975[^] all over again!
Lol, I suppose you are correct. 
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JoeSox wrote: Anyway, I can't believe things are still so difficult to get the basic AI programs to work on these devices.
A computer for less than 50$; a normal desktop PC might have trouble doing what you want to do.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Test
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Bug. 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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...es.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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ickle
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Carpe Jugulum!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I feel honored that you spotted this, Sir.
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What are we testing, exactly?
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How many CP'ians are currently bored? 
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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All of them?
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OriginalGriff wrote: All of them?
Well, hark at Mr High-and-Mighty! "I've got so many points, I don't consider myself to be one of you low-rep plebs. Me and SAK are in our own little club, and the rest of you can all get lost."
You've even managed to get yourself removed from the Who's Who at CodeProject[^] page - sort by reputation, and the list starts with SAK.
Or did you mean "All of us"?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Please.
I don't even like being in the same forum as He Who Must Not Be Named, let alone the same club!
Anyway, I go along with Groucho Marx when it comes to clubs! 
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No!
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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It didn't work; I cannot see your test message.
You always obtain more by being rather polite and armed than polite only.
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I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Ahem![^] 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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What can I say? Great minds think alike.
... And so do perverse ones, apparently.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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