Computer vision is a field that broadly includes many interesting applications, from industrial monitoring systems that detect improperly manufactured items to automotive systems that can drive cars.

Available on Googlecode.com, the “OpenCV computer vision application programming cookbook” contains over 50 OpenCV programming recipies for creating a variety of computer vision operations.

At first blush, it might seem like projects that make extensive use of computer vision or machine learning would need to be based on powerful computing platforms with plenty of clock cycles and memory ...