I built a robot to cheat at Pokemon!!
summary
A robot presses a controller with glued servo motors and a webcam checks a single pixel to detect a shiny Omanyte while an Arduino sequences inputs and a Raspberry Pi runs the image stream. Software stack: Motion + ImageMagick + Ruby (Rails) + firmata, notifications via Twilio. Odds are one out of 4096 per encounter; the rig runs reliably for about 200 hours with servo failures fixed and remote alerts when a shiny appears.
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- 0:00Start
- 4:57Precise with "Computer vision"
- 5:55Easy to code and test
- 6:32Configurable
- 7:43The working prototype!
