Take a doodle, not a photograph, with this AI-powered camera

The Draw This camera and some of its doodle 'photographs.'

You might remember Google's Quick, Draw! project from 2016 — a web-based Pictionary game which asked users to doodle familiar objects while Google's AI guessed what they were. Well, a clever soul named Dan Macnish has turned data from this game into a AI-powered camera, which takes pictures and prints them out as crude doodles.

Macnish describes how he created the camera (which he calls "Draw This") on his blog. It's powered by a Raspberry Pi and uses an off-the-shelf object recognition system to identify objects within each picture. It then looks up these items in the dataset produced by Google's Quick, Draw! project and prints them out using a thermal printer.

It's very cool, but has a big caveat: the camera's ability to capture...

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