2 posts tagged with "camera"

This is Part 14 of the series. Several features now want the camera — face tracking, the idle watcher, Cosmos vision, clip recording — and the voice loop wants the mic. But /dev/video0 and the ALSA mic are single-opener devices: once one process holds either, no one else can. Until now everything that needed a device had to live as a thread inside the one process that opened it.

This is Part 10 of the series. The robot can already look on demand with Cosmos vision and notice who's around while idle. Now I want it to feel present: its head should follow your face in real time — and it has to do that while Cosmos vision and the idle watcher are also using the camera.