In the future, smart cameras will play an important role in enabling many applications. Already today we are seeing such cameras in drones and autonomous cars. Smart cameras rely on neural nets and computer vision to provide information about the world and enable these exciting applications.
That’s what makes the OpenMV kickstarter so interesting. The project is about a camera module with some smarts behind it. OpenMV is a MicroPython-powered machine vision camera that gives your project the power of computer vision without the need for a laptop or GPU. You can read more about the smart camera project here