If you’re looking for a fun Raspberry Pi project to get on board with, you may want to grab a ticket and hop on over to Jo M’s GitHub page to see this amazing trainspotting creation. Affectionally dubbed Trainbot, the system is designed to watch trains as they pass by and create full-length images of the trains. These images are stored in a database that users can view online with real-time updates.
Jo was kind enough to explain in great detail how the setup processes image input. It doesn’t take much hardware to operate the project as it primarily consists of a Raspberry Pi with a camera module v3 (the Global Shutter Camera would be a great option) and there's no need for tools such as OpenCV to process the image input as all of the image processing takes place on the processor.
