Kickstarting Computer Vision with the OpenMV HD
The original OpenMV was an entry for the first Hackaday Prize, and since then the project has had a lot of success. There are tons of followers, plenty of users, and the project even had a successful Kickstarter. That last bit of info is fairly contentious - while the Kickstarter did meet the minimum funding level, there were a lot of problems bringing this very cool product to market. Problems with suppliers and community management were the biggest problems, but the team behind OpenMV eventually pulled it off. At the 2016 Hackaday SuperConference, Kwabena Agyeman, one of the project leads for the OpenMV, told the story about bringing the OpenMV to market Read the Article: http://hackaday.com/?p=237631 Check out the newest version of the OpenMV: https://openmv.io/ Learn more about the Hackaday SuperConference: https://hackaday.io/superconference/