Eclipse Lamp Devlog #1 - Installing Person Detection AI on my Camera

Today was the start of this project and I already know this is going to be really annoying later on. It didn’t go totally as planned, but I still made some progress with my AI camera setup on the Raspberry Pi. This was my first attempt at trying to add the AI person detection software on my Raspberry Pi V2 noIR Camera connected to my Raspberry Pi model B. I spent most of the time coding in terminal and also python scripts to implement computer vision. I got the camera V2 working and tested live video output using rpicam, and started building the software side with Flask and OpenCV to eventually stream footage in a browser. I tried to take it further by installing YOLO (ultralytics) for human detection, but I ran into a bunch of errors during setup and the module wouldn’t import properly afterward. Also ChatGPT kept making me download and delete files over and over again. Even though I couldn’t finish the full AI detection today, I’m planning to come back later and switch to a simpler detection model so I can get real-time bounding boxes and continue building the Eclipse Lamp system.