Uploaded December 2010 | Updated September 2026, 10 hours ago
Here's a project that I've been meaning to make for a few days and which, thanks to OpenCV and OpenLase, was a snap.
It's pretty simple, there's an independent projection app (OpenLase) and an independent sensing app using a webcam (an EyeToy) and OpenCV with the Python bindings and PyALSA for the MIDI stuff. Just about ~70 lines of code for the projection and ~90 for the sensor portion. Whenever the camera sees a dot move or disappear (from the position it was in when the application is launched), it plays a note.
I've pushed the code to my OpenLase repo at git.marcansoft.com/?p=openlase.git . Have fun!
Here's a project that I've been meaning to make for a few days and which, thanks to OpenCV and OpenLase, was a snap.
It's pretty simple, there's an independent projection app (OpenLase) and an independent sensing app using a webcam (an EyeToy) and OpenCV with the Python bindings and PyALSA for the MIDI stuff. Just about ~70 lines of code for the projection and ~90 for the sensor portion. Whenever the camera sees a dot move or disappear (from the position it was in when the application is launched), it plays a note.
I've pushed the code to my OpenLase repo at git.marcansoft.com/?p=openlase.git . Have fun!



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