Category Archives: Waken Koopa Troopas

Thievery for a good cause!

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We wanted to out Mario Detection Systems cameras to be small ( -ish), to be more difficult for the Mario Bros to detect, so naturally we settled on using a Raspberry Pi to run our Mario Detection software. But can a Raspberry Pi even run this software? Can it even be done?

Well, luckily we found OpenCV, an open source computer vision library!
And even better, we found Caroline Dunn’s facial_recognition repository on GitHub, which specifically tackles facial recognition on the Raspberry Pi 4. This was a natural “Yoink!” for us.

After a little bit of tweaking, we can now detect Marios and Luigis, and upload the images to our Sharepoint with a Power Automate flow!

Most of my contribution:

Sometimes, it’s better to let someone else do most of the hard work 🙂

Introducing the Mario Detection System (M DS)!

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The system will initially consist of the Mario-detecting Camera (MDC) and the Koopa Kompanion, a canvas app for Koopas in the field.

Once the MDC detects a Mario bro, it will send a notification to all Koopas so they can see the last recorded Mario bro location and destroy him with extreme prejudice.

Look at the happy campers!!

We have adorned our camp (and ourselves) with various Mario paraphernelia. Including but not limited to baloons, hats, a table cover and moustaches.