The objective of this project is adding a Pi Camera to the AIY Voice Kit in order to let machines describe what they see. During the project I had a few questions for the AIY Kit Community. One Googler in particular (thanks Dmitriy!), took an interest in the project and asked me to publish on Hackster.io.

Initially, I found a good tutorial by Leo White: "Adding Vision to the Voice Kit" which helped with both the build and code strategy. But his blog post is from March 2018 and >no longer compatible with the current AIY Kits. So I rewrote the code and enhanced the UX. To add a bit more entertainment value, I built in a few opportunities for personalization and customization as well.

In the past 4 months the project has received 1,404 views and 20 "respect" votes. It was only the second project I've published to Hackster.io and was a fun experience. Beyond the Hackster audience - I'm now using this techology in a commercial application. As they say, "necessity is the mother of invention" - and I'm now working on a fresh multi-modal (Voice/Vision/ML) experience to solve a common problem in modern kitchens. Stay tuned!