Raspberry Pi as a Personal Assistant - Raspberry Pi Mechatronics Projects - page 104

Your objectives
In this project, we will accomplish the following:

F Seing up the e-mail feed parser
F Seing up the parser for reminders and events
F Designing an enclosure for the personal assistant
F Seing up the assembly for the dish monitor
F Seing up sensors for the key alert system

Mission checklist
In this task, we will work on installing all tools and Python modules used in this project:

1. Before we start installing the tools required for this project, if necessary, you can

update the repositories and package lists as follows:
sudo apt-get update

2. We will start with installing python-feedparser . We used the python-

feedparser tool in the previous project and created e-mail alerts for the water
fountain. If you skipped the previous project, the tool can be installed as follows:
sudo apt-get install python-feedparser

3. We will use Google Calendar to organize events and appointments as an example.

We need to install the python-gdata tool to make use of the Google APIs:
sudo apt-get install python-gdata

4. Another important tool required for this project is OpenCV ( http://opencv.
org/ ) . OpenCV is an open source computer vision framework developed by Intel.
OpenCV is widely used by researchers and hobbyists in applicaions such as object
recogniion, machine vision applicaions such as component inspecion on a
manufacturing line, and more.

It is important to know that it takes at least four hours
to finish the compilation of OpenCV.