Every month Intel® Software Innovators and Intel® Student Ambassadors influence and impact their local developer communities by showcasing Intel hardware and software through workshops, trainings, and project demos. See below for some of the highlights from August.

Edge TPU Resources

Innovator Salma Mayorquin shared a collection of installation guides for popular robotics libraries on Mendel OS (Edge TPU dev board Linux distro.

Swipe Away – An Intel® RealSense™ Application

Innovators Archana Iyer & Soham Chatterjee wrote a Medium blog sharing insight into hand gesture recognition using CNNs as well as mapping gestures to specific keys in your keyboard. She demonstrates waving your hand to automatically swipe to the next slide in a presentation with the use of the Intel® RealSense™ camera D415 to track hand movement

BEKRAF Developer Day 2019, Malang

At the Malang City, Indonesia BEKRAF Developer Day, Innovators including Monalisa Arcelia, Adam Ardisasmita, and Adrianus Yoza Aprilio, hosted and presented at the seminar on mobile applications, game development, VR/AR, cloud and security.

Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ Toolkit Workshop

Innovator Manisha Biswas hosted a workshop focused on the Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ toolkit. The workshop demonstrated a project called “Working with IDD Dataset Integrated with the OpenVINO toolkit”.

Chinese New Literati, an Interactive AI Art Show

Innovator Aven Zhou presented three of his art pieces at a local community library in Shanghai. This solo exhibition, a bit of an art flash mob, attracted over 100 local residents with parents and children participating in the demos, live AI music, and audio-visual performances.

Code Maktaba: Data Wrangling in R 2.0

Innovator Alfred Ongere held the second edition of a Data Wrangling in R series. As a continuation of concepts covered in the first event, by the end of the meetup attendees were able to understand and use the two primary tools of control flow, implement the use of functions to reduce duplication in their code, and have an overall base familiarization with R useful functions for data wrangling.

400 Programs in Python, Part 2

Ambassador Patricia Santos shared part 2 of her Medium blog post series, 400 programs in Python. The first article looked at different types of data that can be used in Python and how to store the data in variables. This second article takes a closer look at the selection structures. Read it here.

Elephant Detection System

Innovator Abhinav Kumar’s latest project aims to detect elephants near railway lines or near busy roads. After detection a signal is sent to the forest department so that human-animal conflict can be prevented, which in turn saves the life of elephants. Learn more here.

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