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Example Projects Vision Starter Kit

Explore example projects for the Vision Starter Kit.
The projects are grouped by type, difficulty and estimated duration to help you choose the right starting point.

You can follow the guided projects step by step, use showcase projects as inspiration or try challenge projects to build your own solution.

Project Types

Project type Description
Guided Project Step-by-step project with detailed instructions
Challenge Project Task-based project with fewer instructions
Showcase Project Demonstrator project that shows what is possible
Advanced Project More complex project with higher hardware or software requirements
Community Project A Project created by our Community

Project Overview

  • Vision_2

    Vision Starter Project

    Type: Guided Project
    Difficulty: Basic
    Estimated duration: 90 minutes
    Requirements: Everything included in the Starter Kit

    Get started with first image acquisition settings and an easy AI Classification and Anomaly Detection task.

    Vision Starter Project

  • Classify hex nuts 1

    Classify Hex Nuts/Screws

    Type: Guided Project
    Difficulty: Basic
    Estimated duration: 30 minutes
    Requirements: Everything included in the Starter Kit

    Try out the AI Classification tool by taking images of different hex nuts and screws to generate your first AI algorithm.

    Classify hex,nuts,screws

  • Chocolate Bars

    Chocolate Inspection

    Type: Showcase Project
    Difficulty: Advanced
    Estimated duration: 2 hours
    Requirements: Chocolate bar, optional 3D print files or another packed grocery item

    Follow along with SICK Nova tutorials and explore different AI and non-AI tools by inspecting a chocolate bar.

    Chocolate Inspection

  • Sketch Demonstrator

    Sketch Demonstrator

    Type: Challenge Project
    Difficulty: Advanced
    Estimated duration: 2 hours
    Requirements: Paper, Edding

    Classify different hand-drawn sketches with the AI Classification tool.

    Sketch Demonstrator

  • Empty Box

    Empty Box Detection

    Type: Challenge Project
    Difficulty: Advanced
    Estimated duration: 1 hour
    Requirements: Empty boxes, contaminations such as paper pieces, small stones or similar objects

    Analyze boxes and check whether they contain contamination or foreign objects using AI Anomaly Detection.

    [Coming soon]

  • Rock Paper Scissors

    Rock, Paper, Scissors

    Type: Advanced Project
    Difficulty: Expert
    Estimated duration: 4 hours
    Requirements: Raspberry Pi 5, display, keyboard, mouse, Python, Visual Studio Code

    Use the sensor and AI tools to recognize hand signs for Rock, Paper, Scissors. A Python Flask web app compares the sensor-detected hand sign with a randomly selected computer sign.

    Rock Paper Scissors

  • Lego skeletons

    Sort LEGO Skeletons

    Type: Advanced Project
    Difficulty: Expert
    Estimated duration: 4 hours
    Requirements: LEGO skeletons, optional conveyor belt, trigger sensor, cables and signal light

    Analyze LEGO pieces and identify missing parts. The project can be extended with a conveyor belt and trigger sensor for automation.

    [Coming soon]

  • Recycling

    Recycling

    Type: Challenge Project
    Difficulty: Basic to Advanced
    Estimated duration: 1 to 4 hours
    Requirements: Waste objects, optional conveyor belt, optional pusher or feedback signal

    Use AI Classification to sort different types of waste for recycling tasks.

    Recycling

  • Black Jack

    Black Jack

    Type: Advanced Project
    Difficulty: Advanced to Expert
    Estimated duration: 4 to 8 hours
    Requirements: Playing cards

    Detect and classify playing cards and develop logic to play Black Jack against the computer.

    Blackjack

  • UNO

    UNO Card Game

    Type: Advanced Project
    Difficulty: Advanced to Expert
    Estimated duration: 4 to 8 hours
    Requirements: UNO playing cards

    Detect and classify UNO playing cards and develop logic to play against the computer.

    Uno

  • Tic Tac Toe

    Tic Tac Toe

    Type: Challenge Project
    Difficulty: Advanced
    Estimated duration: 4 hours
    Requirements: Paper, pen, scissors

    Analyze a Tic Tac Toe board and create a logic to play against the computer.

    Tic Tac Toe

  • Darts

    Darts

    Type: Challenge Project
    Difficulty: Advanced
    Estimated duration: 4 hours
    Requirements: Velcro dart board with velcro balls

    Analyze thrown darts on a board and create logic for different games.

    Darts

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Future community or university projects can be submitted through the GitHub.com project repository.