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Using object detection to turn a webcam into a lightgun

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Using object detection to turn a webcam into a lightgun

A rather silly project that uses a Coral.ai edgeTPU mini PCIe board to detect a monitor in a webcam feed and convert that into either mouse movements or joystick input. There's a video in the repository showing the gameplay[0]. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7g3i7UJV5Zg and in the repository.

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