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Discussion on: What's the most complex project you have ever done or been part of?

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Louis Low

Few projects that are consider the most complex to me pass few years:

  • Durian (stinky king fruit) fruit sorting conveyor with image recognition combined with the sensors and cameras. The platform that I used for developing the project is NVIDIA Jetson Xavier controls over collecting and analyzing data from the camera and sensors. TensorFlow for training countless durian images and labeling those images was time-consuming. I developed a program to crawl images from Google Image for the ML. A black color rackmount chassis filled with all modules, including power supply, connectors for sensors, external PLCs (programmable logic controller), ethernets, and 10-inches touch-screen LCD with the cozy cool user interface.
  • Project Sonar.ai is running on the Parallella SoC platform. The object navigates through a 3-Dimensional space with specific frequency several radio wave transmitters as Marker. The object is a Tracer that can be determined by its position in x, y, and z space even the object is moving around in real-time. The object that is implanted with the Tracer module is constantly processing and analyzing the data from the sensors. Using NumPy, Sklearn, and Random Forest Classification for the algorithms.

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Madza

Damn, by someone who is not familiar with the field, both of these seems pretty narrow in the their respective niches 🎯
You must be well requested for that kind of specific knowledge 🔥🔥

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Louis Low • Edited

Hoho... I am flattered and thank you. You can too @madza by start learning modern IoT such as you already knew (Raspberry Pi, BeakerBone, Arduino, etc.) to get a better understanding of the basic SoC world. And you can merge your current software development skills with IoT platform and one day somehow you could mass production yours dreams.

I am coming from the Electronic & Electrical Engineering (plus Computer Science). Too long in that field that makes me feel bored. Then, I decided to enter the world of web development. Which adding more colours into the hardware world. Both combinations are amazing. Somehow, I am falling in love with web development, I creating frameworks and libraries solving the UI that the electronic lack of, you can find them at Github. And then, self study the machine learning myself (I also published my notebooks), then again adding more superpower to the hardware creation. I love what I am doing. My dream has come true, I just maintain the dream.

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Madza

This is just awesome and inspirational! 🧙‍♂️✨
Dreams do come true, if you put enough effort into it 🎯🚀💯

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Louis Low

If one dream has come true. I can always make a new one.

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Madza

Exactly 😉 Never settle 🚀 That's another key to it 💯

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Louis Low

I opensource the image scraper module for the above fruit sorting conveyor project. you can grab the repo here.