This Raspberry Pi project uses AI to tell visually impaired people what's happening around them

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Key findings

  • The Third Eye project uses AI on Raspberry Pi to help visually impaired people orient themselves in the world.
  • Md. Khairul Alam's low-cost hardware solution is intended to benefit low-income countries with high rates of visual impairment.
  • Consider exploring the official Raspberry Pi AI board for your own SBC projects as recommended by Ayush Pande.



We're entering a really cool era with SBCs where people are combining Raspberry Pis with AI models. We've seen a lot of really cool implementations using AI on the SBCs, from useful to silly. Now we can add another touch to the “can really help people in their daily lives” side, as someone has created this amazing Raspberry Pi project that uses AI to describe the world to visually impaired people.

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The “Third Eye” project gives visually impaired people a guide through life

The Third Eye Pi Project


Discovered by Tom's HardwareThis project was the brainchild of Md. Khairul Alam on Hackster. Although technology has a lot to offer people with vision problems, Khairul wanted to focus on using the Raspberry Pi because it is very cheap to make the hardware. As it turns out, that is extremely important when making assistive devices for people with vision problems:

There are around 2.2 billion people worldwide who are not visually impaired, and 90% of them live in low-income countries. Therefore, an easily accessible and affordable solution for visually impaired people in these low-income countries is very important.


The idea behind this “third eye” project is that the patient wears glasses with a small camera. This camera transmits information to a Seeed Studio XIAO ESP32S3 Sense and a Raspberry Pi 1 Model B+, which use object detection to figure out what is in front of the person. The boards then convert a text-based description of what is happening in front of the wearer and relay it to the wearer via text-to-speech through the headphones.

If you're looking to use AI for your next SBC project, check out the new official Raspberry Pi AI board. Ayush Pande recently got his hands on a Raspberry Pi AI board and had some nice things to say about it.



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