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AI on the Edge LESSON 44: Displaying Live MediaPipe FaceMesh Avatar on SSD1306 OLED in OpenCV

This is Getting Crazy Cool!

Hey guys, welcome back to the Fusion AI Lab series, AI on the Edge! In Lesson 44 we just took things up another notch. We’re now running MediaPipe Face Mesh on our Raspberry Pi 5, pulling all 468 facial landmarks in real time, and then drawing a clean, smooth face contour directly onto a tiny 128×64 OLED display!

That’s right — your face is now living on that little monochrome OLED in real time! Every eyebrow raise, smile, head tilt, and eye movement gets faithfully reproduced on the display. We’re pulling the camera feed with picamera2, processing it with MediaPipe’s powerful face mesh, scaling the landmarks down to OLED resolution, and then drawing the official FACEMESH_CONTOURS connections using PIL. The result is surprisingly smooth and fun to watch! This project really shows the power of combining modern AI vision tools with simple embedded hardware. Watching your own face rendered in real time on a tiny OLED is just plain awesome — it feels like sci-fi stuff from just a few years ago, and now we’re doing it on the Edge with our Fusion AI Lab kit!

If you’ve been following along, you’re starting to see how powerful these tools are becoming. We’re no longer just detecting faces — we’re understanding the structure of the face and visualizing it however we want. And we’re just getting started!

So fire up your Raspberry Pi, grab that OLED, and let’s keep pushing the limits. You’re doing some seriously cool stuff!

In this lesson we are still using our standard Fusion AI Lab Kit cirtuit from the earlier lessons:

Fusion Hat Circuit Diagram
This is the circuit we will use moving forward in the class

We have also connected the OLED to the above circuit according to this diagram:

OLED
SSD1306 OLED Connected to the Fusion AI Hat

Arduino IMU Project with Complete Avionics Display for Roll, Pitch and Yaw on a SSD1306 OLED

In this video lesson we wrap up our project to create an Arduino IMU using the GY-87 IMU module, with an MPU6050 chip and a QMC5883L Magnetometer. In this lesson we complete the avionics display, creating an accurate graphical output for Roll, Pitch, and Yaw. This is the schematic we are using for this project:

OLED IMU
This schematic shows how to connect the SSD1306 OLED to our IMU Project.

This is the code we develop in the video. Remember, you have to calibrate your sensors, and put your calibration numbers into the code below. I showed you how to do the calibration in THIS LESSON.

 

Arduino IMU Project with SSD1306 OLED and GY-87 Module with Compass and Roll Avionics Display

OLED IMU
This schematic shows how to connect the SSD1306 OLED to our IMU Project.

For your convenience, this is the code we developed in the video. Remember, you have to edit the program to use the calibration parameters for your IMU module. I showed you how to get those parameters, and calibrate your sensors in THIS LESSON.

 

Arduino Digital Compass Project with SSD1306 OLED Display

In this video lesson we add an SSD1306 OLED to our Arduino Uno R4 WiFi IMU project. The schematic we use for the project is:

OLED IMU
This schematic shows how to connect the SSD1306 OLED to our IMU Project.

The code below is the program we develop in the video. Remember, you have to use your calibration parameters in the program below. I showed you how to calibrate your  system in THIS LESSON.

 

Getting Geared Up for the Ultimate GPS Tracker with Raspberry Pi Pico W

GPS Project
Gearing Up for the Ultimate GPS Challenge

Guys in this class we will be building the Ultimate GPS Tracker. This will build on all you learned in our most excellent Raspberry Pi Pico W class, and now we will begin working on a real project. Hopefully most of the gear you will already have from the various kits you already have, but I give amazon links to the gear we will be using in the project. You Will Need: