Sometimes you have to take what's in the box of electronics garbage, no matter how unwieldy :D And I tell you, this thing is a handling nightmare. The keyboard at the back is so janky to press :D
If you look at your statistics you will see that a percentage of people are watching you from Argentina... I am that percentage, enjoy my devalued money :D . (Amazing video)
A "quick and dirty" way would be to map the confidence rating of the identification process to feedback... The more confident the AI was with the prediction, the "better" the image was.
I'd love to see this turned into something more substantial, like an app for a mobile phone or tablet along with a sleek plastic case to turn it into a rotom phone or other pokedex. Giving it the same design philosophy as an in-universe pokedex would have, making it much less jank and more realistic. Along with a national pokedex catalogue that updates with each new scanned pokemon. Also, I'd try to train the neural network on even more pokemon images, screenshot from the anime, from the games, existing pokedex images, mystery dungeon faces, memes. As much as possible.
It's a cool idea, but frankly I'm scared of Nintendo's lawyers. Projects got taken down for much less, and you can't just publish an app with Pokemon IP and expect it to go well. Also its a ton of effort and probably not worth it (if I'm prioritizing channel growth) to make an app, especially cross platform. You have to jump through so many hoops to get it on the stores, I speak from experience :D But yeah, if I touch this project again in the future, I'll use even more diverse data sources. Plushies from the official website, cosplays, ai generated images, ...
@ProgrammingWithJulius Yeah! And I mean, even if you don't publish a publicly available application, still trying to 3d print and create a more realistic and less janky pokedex device would be a super cool niche to see on youtube! Or possibly collaborating with BigRig Creates for the hardware, while you provide him the software. Either way, you did a great job with the prototype already and a real final product would be cool as hell
@@ProgrammingWithJulius (Also... You could always try discreetly sharing an APK download for the pokedex app, if you think it worthy enough to risk it. No problem if you don't of course though)
@@ProgrammingWithJulius I mean, yes, this would be probably pretty easy to get running on a latest-gen PI. However, consider the following: * PI Zero 2 small and fits better in pokedex-sized enclosure * PI Zero 2 cheap * My hubris knows no bounds until I actually start working on the project
@@somdudewillson Inference-wise it could actually work on a pi zero 2. It only takes a few (hundred) ms to get a response from the neural network. The biggest bottleneck was rendering the camerafeed and pokedex image onto the "high" resolution screen. So if you optimize that, or make a "real" UI that doesn't use up all the frame time the result should be much better. Have you started the project yet? :)
@@ProgrammingWithJulius I've started the process of gathering the training data and training my own network. I'm planning on trying to use EMOv2, a bleeding-edge low-resource image network architecture.
Next one is going to be Mario party again, because people are watching the hell out of that 😂 but I want to branch out into more games, and I have a few more Pokémon projects in the works as well!
It would be interesting to see more about the visual recognition system! I noticed it called both long Flareon and diglettfoot Eevee, is it more likely to mistake pokemon for a pokemon that is very common in the training data? How does it handle seeing multiple pokemon at once? Can it guess the correct pokemon if you show it what inspired the pokemons design?
It’s usually difficult to interpret how neural networks see the world. It may look for features that are entirely different from what a human would look for. I could try to look at the activation maps and maybe make a follow-up short video or so, thanks for the idea! And this specific network doesn’t handle multiple Pokémon at all - it will just give one response for the strongest estimate. I love diving deeper into technical details but sadly this doesn’t work well with a broader UA-cam audience…
You could make it much less janky with a small budget and a little effort. Get a newer pi so it doesn't lag, get a cheap and small touchscreen display and a smaller power bank, and you're good to go :D But I wanted to do it with what I had at home :)
If it’s possible to share the code I feel like you could make this into a phone app for fun that could be side-loaded with help of the algorithm made (spitballing ideas here)
I'm guessing it's referencing the "afd" folder, which is a far-right political party in Germany, which was classified as a "suspected extremist" party. They're basically just BadMan 2.0 (YT censors comments with certain words, so I'm not taking the chance of saying BadMan's real name)
Don't wanna sound too negative, but that will 100% not work. Nintendo is one of the most litigious companies in the world and they are extremely protective of their intellectual property. PointCrow almost had his channel taken down because he set a $10k bounty for someone to make a Zelda multiplayer mod. The Mario battle royale game (which was literally free advertising) got taken down in days and cease and desist letters got sent out. And there are 1000s of other examples of this :D
Underrated, my friend
Thanks man, much appreciated! Big fan, by the way :)
omg hi fox guy i mean fundy
holy mother of moly.
I love that the sheer size of that screen turns this into the Pokédex equivalent of a Buster Sword
Sometimes you have to take what's in the box of electronics garbage, no matter how unwieldy :D And I tell you, this thing is a handling nightmare. The keyboard at the back is so janky to press :D
If you look at your statistics you will see that a percentage of people are watching you from Argentina... I am that percentage, enjoy my devalued money :D . (Amazing video)
I just checked - 0.3% of my total views come from Argentina! Thank you very much for the kind donation :)
This is super cool!
The montage of making the pokedex itself was incredibly funny. I'd buy that for 5,999 (with a 10% discount)
I highly recommend against that investment 😂
Thanks for the kind words though :)
oooo... that was incredible
Very kind of you, much appreciated! :)
Be careful of Nintendo ninjas breaking into your home to steal your groundbreaking tech
What's next, AI to rate your photos of Pokémon like Professor Oak in Pokémon Snap?
A "quick and dirty" way would be to map the confidence rating of the identification process to feedback... The more confident the AI was with the prediction, the "better" the image was.
Cool idea, but I’d have no idea how to get a good training dataset 😂
I'd love to see this turned into something more substantial, like an app for a mobile phone or tablet along with a sleek plastic case to turn it into a rotom phone or other pokedex. Giving it the same design philosophy as an in-universe pokedex would have, making it much less jank and more realistic. Along with a national pokedex catalogue that updates with each new scanned pokemon. Also, I'd try to train the neural network on even more pokemon images, screenshot from the anime, from the games, existing pokedex images, mystery dungeon faces, memes. As much as possible.
It's a cool idea, but frankly I'm scared of Nintendo's lawyers. Projects got taken down for much less, and you can't just publish an app with Pokemon IP and expect it to go well. Also its a ton of effort and probably not worth it (if I'm prioritizing channel growth) to make an app, especially cross platform. You have to jump through so many hoops to get it on the stores, I speak from experience :D
But yeah, if I touch this project again in the future, I'll use even more diverse data sources. Plushies from the official website, cosplays, ai generated images, ...
@ProgrammingWithJulius Yeah! And I mean, even if you don't publish a publicly available application, still trying to 3d print and create a more realistic and less janky pokedex device would be a super cool niche to see on youtube! Or possibly collaborating with BigRig Creates for the hardware, while you provide him the software. Either way, you did a great job with the prototype already and a real final product would be cool as hell
@@ProgrammingWithJulius (Also... You could always try discreetly sharing an APK download for the pokedex app, if you think it worthy enough to risk it. No problem if you don't of course though)
...Now _I_ want to do a project like this. Gonna go order some hardware...
Do yourself a favour and don’t run it on weak hardware, it’s a pain 😂
@@ProgrammingWithJulius I mean, yes, this would be probably pretty easy to get running on a latest-gen PI. However, consider the following:
* PI Zero 2 small and fits better in pokedex-sized enclosure
* PI Zero 2 cheap
* My hubris knows no bounds until I actually start working on the project
@@somdudewillson Inference-wise it could actually work on a pi zero 2. It only takes a few (hundred) ms to get a response from the neural network. The biggest bottleneck was rendering the camerafeed and pokedex image onto the "high" resolution screen. So if you optimize that, or make a "real" UI that doesn't use up all the frame time the result should be much better.
Have you started the project yet? :)
@@ProgrammingWithJulius I've started the process of gathering the training data and training my own network. I'm planning on trying to use EMOv2, a bleeding-edge low-resource image network architecture.
Absolutely incredible video!! The carrying case made me laugh out loud 😂
Thank you!
I’m dearly missing the waste basket under my desk though 😂
Computer science? I'd have pegged you as an engineer with that amazing travel case.
Yeah I channeled my inner "assume pi = 5" to put this build together :D
Oh my god this is such a cool idea!!! Cant wait to see what you work on next :]
Next one is going to be Mario party again, because people are watching the hell out of that 😂 but I want to branch out into more games, and I have a few more Pokémon projects in the works as well!
this is genuinely one of the coolest things ive ever seen
Thank you for the kind words! ♥️
the hardware section gave me a mild anxiety attack, but besides that, very cool 😂
I was also way out of my comfort zone 😂
This video, and this entire channel actually, is really cool. Keep it up! 👍
Thank you! More is coming soon-ish. Got a few personal responsibilities to take care of, but I’m planning to release a video in the next 2-4 weeks :)
Can’t wait for this channel to get bigger! Surely good things to come
I have tons of ideas for future projects :) Sadly this one didn't do so well, but more is already in the works!
It would be interesting to see more about the visual recognition system! I noticed it called both long Flareon and diglettfoot Eevee, is it more likely to mistake pokemon for a pokemon that is very common in the training data? How does it handle seeing multiple pokemon at once? Can it guess the correct pokemon if you show it what inspired the pokemons design?
It’s usually difficult to interpret how neural networks see the world. It may look for features that are entirely different from what a human would look for. I could try to look at the activation maps and maybe make a follow-up short video or so, thanks for the idea!
And this specific network doesn’t handle multiple Pokémon at all - it will just give one response for the strongest estimate.
I love diving deeper into technical details but sadly this doesn’t work well with a broader UA-cam audience…
3:00 *loses aura*
Fantastic video, very well made and fun!
Glad you enjoyed it! I have a lot more content planned. Subscribe so you don’t miss it :)
@ProgrammingWithJulius did, in fact
@@AutisticYui awesome :)
That's definitely a cool project, can't wait to see more :)
Thanks, and more is coming soon! I’ve got tons of ideas for new videos, subscribe so you don’t miss them :)
nice intro
Nice profile picture 😂♥️
Not the afd-shiny jumpscare
Having it as hardware is incredibly sick. Even if its a bit of a scrappy job, the ms paint look has its charm lol
You could make it much less janky with a small budget and a little effort. Get a newer pi so it doesn't lag, get a cheap and small touchscreen display and a smaller power bank, and you're good to go :D But I wanted to do it with what I had at home :)
Now have the image reference the correct pokedex entry and have an AI text to voice read it out loud!
Do I get extra points if I train my own model to mimic the original Pokédex voice from the anime? ;)
@ Indubitably!
your videos are top quality. no doubt you will blow up big time soon
Thanks for the kind words :) Sadly this video didn't really hit the mark... But oh well, there's more coming!
If it’s possible to share the code I feel like you could make this into a phone app for fun that could be side-loaded with help of the algorithm made (spitballing ideas here)
I thought about that, but publishing apps is a ton of effort and I’m probably going to get sued by Nintendo if I did that 😂
Julius is the real MVP!!
6:55 😁
I came from the future to tell you that on 7th October 2025 you'll hit 125k subs
I'm putting it in my calendar!
What's with the "Germans be like" at 1:10 ?
I'm guessing it's referencing the "afd" folder, which is a far-right political party in Germany, which was classified as a "suspected extremist" party. They're basically just BadMan 2.0 (YT censors comments with certain words, so I'm not taking the chance of saying BadMan's real name)
the German far right party is called AfD
AFD is the name of a far-right political party in Germany
Some of the files had "afd" in front of them which also is the abbreviation of a controversial politic party in germany
@kirby8963 man yt and its recent removing of all topics, I had a comment mentioning and its gone
Why not make it a mobile app and show it to Nintendo?
How to get sued for copyright infringement 101😬
@@ProgrammingWithJulius If they can make money, without doing much, they won't say no
Don't wanna sound too negative, but that will 100% not work. Nintendo is one of the most litigious companies in the world and they are extremely protective of their intellectual property.
PointCrow almost had his channel taken down because he set a $10k bounty for someone to make a Zelda multiplayer mod. The Mario battle royale game (which was literally free advertising) got taken down in days and cease and desist letters got sent out. And there are 1000s of other examples of this :D
Wallahi this is baba video
Thx bro ♥️
waoww so beautiful