Simple OpenCV Interactive Game
Today I completed my first OpenCV mini-project as part of my computer vision journey. I built a simple game where a target appears on screen and the player gains or loses points depending on whether they successfully click it before time runs out. Along the way, I learned how OpenCV handles webcam frames, coordinate systems, drawing shapes and text, mouse callback functions, timers using Python’s time module, and calculating distances between points for hit detection. One of the biggest challenges was understanding how variables behave across different parts of a program and how event-driven functions interact with the main game loop. More importantly, this project taught me that I don’t need to memorize everything before building; I can learn concepts as I encounter problems and work through them. My next step is exploring OpenCV color tracking as I continue working toward my long-term goal of creating an AI-powered scouting system for FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC). Hackatime reports approximately 6 hours of coding time, although that includes learning OpenCV fundamentals and experimenting with earlier practice projects that contributed to this build.
