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How I built a gaze-controlled 3D camera (and an eye-aim shooter) using MediaPipe, OpenCV, and Pygame, and most importantly no $1,000 eye-tracker required.
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Eye-tracking has always felt like a luxury feature. The good hardware, such as Tobii bars, dedicated IR trackers, costs more than the games you'd play with it, and every tutorial seems to assume you already own one. So I asked the obvious question: how far can I get with the webcam that's already sitting on top of my monitor?

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A practical six-field permission card for safer AI agents: define goals, access, approval gates, stop conditions, and evidence before a live run.
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Before you give an AI agent tools, define its goal, reading and writing access, approval points, stop conditions, and the evidence it must leave.

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How can hand pose estimation be used for controlling drones with computer vision technology.
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A gesture-controlled drone is a three-stage pipeline, not a one-liner. Stage 1: detect hand landmarks in real time (MediaPipe gives you 21 keypoints per hand). Stage 2 is the part most tutorials skip and turn those landmarks into a discrete gesture (open palm, fist, pointing), using either simple finger-state rules or a small neural net, with a buffer so noise doesn't fire commands. Stage 3: map each gesture to a drone command and send it over the drone's SDK (djitellopy for a DJI Tello), wrapped in a safety layer. Detection is the easy 20%. Classification, debouncing, and safe command mapping are the 80% that actually flies.