A smart dog vest connected to a cellular network, collecting biometrics, and performing YOLO object recognition
Deploy your own furry minions! The PoochPak leverages the special abilities/perspective of dogs for a ‘poochies-in-the-loop’ system to collect and execute logic based on audio/visual and biometric cues.
Thanks to PiSimo’s repo for the YOLO code to run on raspbian.
This repo is a spinoff of the same project using a drone! Check it
out!
Here
is a link to the contest entry on hackster.io for more info.
Requirements:
Here is a diagram showcasing how the temperature, pulse, and accelerometer sensors should be wired. We wired all these
sensors to a small pcb board for more reliable connections while the vest is worn. You should connect the Hologram Nova
via a usb port (for the zero we used a microusb to usb converter). You should also connect the pi camera using the mini
camera ribbon.
Compatibility between project dependencies requires python3.4 as default python3. You should burn
this specific
image for your raspberry pi zero.
After making this image and wiring the pi, boot up and go through the first-time boot configuration.
You should make sure to:
After a reboot, git clone this repo
cd ~/git clone https://github.com/mayorquinmachines/PoochPak.gitcd PoochPak
Run the install script to install all dependencies. Note: This will take a long time! Leave it running overnight.
./install.sh
Reboot your pi after the install script has finished. Run:
sudo modprobe bcm2835-v4l2sudo modprobe w1-gpiosudo modprobe w1-therm
This is just making sure all modules needed to communicate with the sensors are enabled.
To use hologram to send SMS, you’ll need to set up you Hologram Dashboard and activate your sim card.
Here is the Hologram starter guide for doing
just that. The install script has handled installing hologram-cli and hologram-python-sdk for you. You can test this
by running
sudo hologram version
Once your sim card is activated and your device shows that it is live in your Dashboard, you want to set up a phone
number you want to send SMS messages to. In your Dashboard, click on your device and navigate to Configuration. From
that page, you’ll want to configure your phone number under Configure phone number. This should set up you Nova to
send SMS messages to this phone number. In this same page, you’ll see + Show Device Key. Clicking on this button
will give you a key you’ll need to authenticate your hologram-python-sdk. You’ll want to create a config file where
you’ll place this key for use. Run the following:
cd ~/PoochPaktouch config.pyecho "DEVICEKEY='<your-key-here>'" >> config.py
Finally, to run the code for object recognition and starting the sensor server, follow the instructions below!
cd yolo_picam/nohup sudo python3 picam.py &
nohup sudo python poochpak_server.py &
If you’re having issues with the Yolo object recognitition script (picam.py) not finding the camera, it could be that
you need to reenable the camera again. Try enabling it again using sudo raspi-config and run sudo modprobe
bcm2835-v4l2.
Sometimes the Hologram Nova loses signal. You should make sure that the red LED is lit up and the blue LED is flashing.
Rapid flashing means you’re on the 3G network, slower flashing means 2G network, and no blue light means the Nova isn’t
on a network yet.
If the sensors aren’t working correctly, take a look at the wiring again and make sure everything is correct. Then try
reenabling their modules again:
sudo modprobe w1-gpio #For temp sensorsudo modprobe w1-therm #For temp sensorsudo modprobe spi-bcm2708 #For pulse sensor
There are also a script you can run to test all of the sensors. Try running python ~/PoochPak/tests/run_tests.py