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Raspberry Pi Sensors

You're reading from   Raspberry Pi Sensors Integrate sensors into your Raspberry Pi projects and let your powerful microcomputer interact with the physical world

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784393618
Length 192 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Rushi Gajjar Rushi Gajjar
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Preface 1. Meeting Your Buddy – the Raspberry Pi FREE CHAPTER 2. Meeting the World of Electronics 3. Measuring Distance Using Ultrasonic Sensors 4. Monitoring the Atmosphere Using Sensors 5. Using an ADC to Interface any Analog Sensor with the Raspberry Pi 6. Uploading Data Online – Spreadsheets, Mobile, and E-mails 7. Creating an Image Sensor Using a Camera and OpenCV A. Shopping List Index

Create a motion detector


We have already set up a piece of software called motion. It detects and captures motion, but that's not fun at all compared to building our own code to capture motion. We will create code that will detect motion and take a decision according to the extent of motion. We will trigger an LED to indicate the decision taken by the RasPi. This code is going to be a bit long, so the explanation is given in comments within the code. However, important information is provided just after the end of the code:

#include <iostream>
#include <cv.h>
#include <highgui.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <cctype>
#include <iterator>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <wiringPi.h>
#include "opencv2/highgui/highgui.hpp"
#include <time.h>

using namespace cv;
using namespace std;

int main()
{
/*----Section 1 -----------------Declarations------------------*/
wiringPiSetup();  //To toggle LED, Essential
pinMode(0, OUTPUT); //BCM_GPIO pin 17
CvMemStorage...
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