Go, Eat, Learn: A Raspberry Pi System for Smart Fridge
A maker has built a Raspberry Pi system that can scan your fridge for food, using YOLOv5, and can even recommend recipes based on what you have. The project is called Go, Eat, Learn, and is part of Hackster’s Voice Assistant and IoT Challenge, with the aim to improve the smart home experience and better cater to your needs.
With the rise of voice assistants, we’ve seen the smart home become more intelligent, but the experience is still lacking. With most assistants only able to control pre-defined devices, or at best use IFTTT, there’s little scope for them to cater to your needs and respond to your specific situation. The Raspberry Pi project aims to improve this by scanning your fridge for food, and using image recognition, can recommend recipes based on what you have.
Food is scanned using a camera module, which can be any camera really, and the image is processed using image recognition. Raspberry Pi organizes the information, and then finds a recipe using ChatGPT with Open AI. It then sends a telegram notification with the recipe, and if you want, a tutorial video on how to make it.
The maker, Simon, says that two Raspberry Pis were used, one being a Pi 4B, and the other being a WIZnet W5100S-EVB-Pico board, which is used to connect to the internet. Any camera can be used with the Raspberry Pi Camera Module, which is handy.
For more on the components and software used, visit the Hackster project page. You can also follow Simon for future updates on the project.
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