Engineering student created an impressive DIY cable cam with AI-powered tracking

Uruguayan engineering student, Maximiliano Palay, has shared a detailed breakdown showing how he built Cablecam, a DIY cable camera. While this isn’t exactly your weekend Raspberry Pi project, if you have the engineering chops (as well as time and money), it is something you can piece together yourself.

The Cablecam, as Max calls it, was the first project of his to integrate all of his disciplines together: ‘software, hardware design and a couple of fabrication techniques’ and was his first attempt at creating a moving robot.

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