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Industrial AI, machine vision, and embedded automation notes.

Plain-English notes for teams exploring camera inspection, visual quality control, OCR/OCV, barcode reading, video tracking, robotics, microcontrollers, Jetson-class edge AI, and practical automation with humans still in the loop.

Horticulture ML

Horticulture ML: greenhouse AI vision automation

How TensorFlow object detection, OpenCV preprocessing, AWS S3, Python, and edge devices can monitor crops, classify plant state, and support greenhouse automation.

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Sports video AI

Automatic scoreboard follower with Jetson Nano and AWS Media Live

A practical architecture for school sports video: camera ingest, GStreamer, Jetson Nano, OpenCV, ML models, AWS Media Live, score detection, and event-aware overlays.

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Machine vision

Industrial machine vision inspection with AI and embedded systems

How camera inspection systems combine lighting, lenses, OpenCV, edge AI, Jetson-class devices, PLC signals, and human review for practical quality control.

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Visual QC

Camera quality control for missing parts and assembly errors

A practical view of camera-based QC for missing screws, clips, sockets, labels, wrong parts, surface flaws, and final assembly checks.

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Traceability

OCR, OCV, barcode, and QR reading on production lines

How production lines can read and verify labels, serial numbers, barcodes, QR codes, printed characters, and traceability data.

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Video intelligence

Object recognition, video tracking, counting, and classification

How video can become structured events: object detection, tracking, counting, classification, alerts, and operator review.

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Robotics

Robotic guidance and camera measurement automation

Using cameras for robot guidance, part position, dimensional checks, alignment, distance, angle, diameter, and conveyor or PLC handoff.

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