Tushar Chugh
Published © MIT

Smart Cap: Vision For The Visually Impaired

Smart Cap is an assistant for visually impaired which narrates the description of scene.

IntermediateFull instructions providedOver 2 days17,685

Things used in this project

Hardware components

Amazon Echo
Amazon Alexa Amazon Echo
×1
Raspberry Pi 3 Model B
Raspberry Pi 3 Model B
×1
Creative USB webcam
Any webcam or RPi camera module can be used
×1
Power Bank 5v
Any 5v power bank to power Raspberry Pi. Preferably 1,000mAh or higher
×1

Software apps and online services

AWS DynamoDB
Amazon Web Services AWS DynamoDB
AWS Lambda
Amazon Web Services AWS Lambda
Alexa Skills Kit
Amazon Alexa Alexa Skills Kit
Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Azure
Used Microsoft cognitive services for image recognition

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Code

Smart cap Code

Credits

Tushar Chugh

Tushar Chugh

2 projects • 29 followers
Graduate Student at Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
Thanks to Bhupati and Aditya MSK.

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