We talk with Cocoa Xu about his PhD robotics project and his related Evision project that creates Elixir bindings to the OpenCV library. The project enables computer vision in Elixir much easier by building on existing projects. We learn about the kinds of features this enables and how it can target embedded devices as well. His goal of a clustered, collaborative, hoard of Elixir robots is terrifyingly fascinating! 😄

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/85

Elixir Community News

https://github.com/livebook-dev/livebook/pull/948 – New feature added to Livebook draws red squiggly lines under syntax errors.
https://tecnoblog.net/noticias/2022/01/24/as-5-linguagens-de-programacao-mais-usadas-no-brasil-segundo-o-github/ – Elixir is the 5th most growing programming language in Brazil in 2021 on GitHub. Article in Portuguese.
https://pragprog.com/titles/liveview/programming-phoenix-liveview/ – Updated version of the book "Programming Phoenix LiveView"
https://twitter.com/akoutmos/status/1487545038632628245 – Inspired by episode 81 about "burrito", Alex Koutmos created a json terminal tool in Elixir
https://gist.github.com/akoutmos/f14e0f719b4efbee2526858b34869004 – Alex shared a Gist so people can do this themselves
https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v1.13.2 – Elixir v1.13.2 with enhanced "mix format" support and more
https://github.com/feliperenan/heex_formatter – New alpha state library is a HEEx formatter
https://fly.io/blog/free-postgres/ – Hosting provider Fly.io announced free Postgres databases.

Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at show@thinkingelixir.com

Discussion Resources

https://github.com/cocoa-xu/evision
https://twitter.com/brainlid/status/1470588461371568129
https://github.com/opencv/opencv
https://pypi.org/project/opencv-python/
https://github.com/cocoa-xu/evision/tree/main/examples – Usage examples that part of the repo
https://cocoa-xu.github.io/evision/ – Online docs at the moment
https://twitter.com/_uwu_cocoa/status/1466898968164679696
https://github.com/opencv/opencv – Open Source Computer Vision

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85: Computer Vision in Elixir with Cocoa Xu

Thinking Elixir Podcast

85: Computer Vision in Elixir with Cocoa Xu