When I was finishing my basement at night I was up on a ladder holding something heavy with my left hand, drill in my right hand and screws hanging from my mouth. Wife comes in and says "Honey I'm going out for about an hour", see you later. When she left she accidentally shut the lights out. You know the rest.
Think about it............how to plan for that?
This is a huge project, good luck. When I get time I'll will try to capture pictures and calculate the delay. I believe the pi's camera might be a problem with pictures. Streaming video would be faster, but to process this information takes up a lot of machine cycles, not to mention the speed of the locos.
Adrian, I've been using the new 8 megapixel camera instead of the 5 megapixel cam. For your info the new 8 meg camera has much better lower light sensitivity. But I'm finding that taking pictures still takes valuable time.
I've been thinking more along the lines of how facial recognition works. From big faces to small faces the mac computer always (usually) identifies the person (after you name them). Instead of a person, how about an object. There has to be software out there that already does this. Just throwing up ideas.
Again, what happens when the lights go out. Haven't gotten past that one yet.
