Have you ever wished that cameras could capture not only an image of the scene in front of them, but also describe it to you in plain English. Ok, what if it bypassed the whole "photo" thing and just spit out a slip of paper with words on it. Well, if you're still interested, the impressive Matt Richardson (of Make fame) has a project right up your alley. The Descriptive Camera is a relatively simple device really. A Logitech webcam is connected to a BeagleBone dev board, which is in turn plugged into a thermal printer from Adafruit.
Engadget, DIY 'Descriptive Camera' captures images, prints out prose
