ML Vision Projects - Hands-On Meetup

# ML Visions — Monday Night Projects & Community Meetup

📍 Denhac
🕠 5:30 PM → ~8:00 PM
Join us for our weekly ML Visions Monday meetup — a collaborative, hands-on session where people explore machine learning, hardware, computer vision, and creative tech projects. This is a friendly space for beginners, hobbyists, and experts alike.
We have several active group projects, and you’re always welcome to bring your own idea or experiment.

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# 🧰 Current Group Projects

### 🐈 Cat Scratch — Training a Vision Model From Scratch

A from-first-principles project where we learn deep learning fundamentals as a group. We’re following the Stanford CS231n course (currently on Lecture 4 — backpropagation & computational graphs) and gradually building a simple cat detector from scratch. Great for people who want to understand neural networks deeply, not just use them.

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### 🟩 NVIDIA Jetson Orin / Xavier NX Projects

We’re exploring multiple hardware-accelerated ML builds, including:

• Jetson Orin Nano setups (JetPack, OS installs, GPU workflows)
• Jetson Xavier NX station
• Camera + projector systems
• Real-time ML inference experiments

This also overlaps with the Snowball Game and Halloween Projection setups.

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### 🎃 Halloween Projection / Interactive Installations

Ongoing experiments using Jetsons, projectors, cameras, and LED strips to create large-scale interactive visuals — started with Halloween projections and expanding into new creative directions (like the Snowball Game).

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### 🥽 Wearables — M5/ESP32 Sensor Devices

Building custom wearable devices using ESP32, IMUs, LEDs, and small displays.
Current goals include:

• Custom firmware
• Motion sensing
• Simple ML inference on-device
• Real-time visualization

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### 🍓 ML on Raspberry Pi / Hailo

Running lightweight ML models on Raspberry Pi boards, with optional Hailo accelerators and edge-ML optimization. Deployment, benchmarking, and experimentation welcome.

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# 🧊 Snowball Game (Jetson-Oriented Interactive Project)

A collaborative project using:

• Projectors
• Cameras
• Jetson Orin
• LED light rigs
• Realtime tracking / physics logic

This is an evolving interactive installation (part computer vision, part LED art, part creative tech).

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# 🕓 Monday Night Schedule

### 🕠 5:30–6:00 PM — Meet & Greet

A relaxed warm-up:

• Meet the group
• Share what you’re working on
• Quick updates on the main projects
• Help new people find where they fit

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### 🕕 6:00–7:30 PM — Project Work Time

Break off into:

• Group project teams
• Solo work tables
• Small learning huddles

Feel free to:

• Bring your own project
• Join one of the group builds
• Ask for help
• Learn from others
• Explore demos
• Or just observe and brainstorm

The classroom and other rooms are usually available if groups want their own space.

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### 🕢 ~7:30 PM — Project Round-Up

A short, informal share-out where each group or individual can:

• Show what they worked on
• Summarize progress
• Ask for collaborators
• Flag next steps

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### 🕗 7:45–8:00 PM — Wrap-Up / Social Time

People can keep hacking, chat about next steps, or call it a night.