How I Taught a Raspberry Pi to Read My Gas Meter with a Neural Network
A complete walkthrough of how I built and trained a YOLOv8 neural network to read the digits off my gas meter, run it live on a Raspberry Pi 4, report readings to Home Assistant, and auto-submit them to my energy supplier. Covers computer vision from first principles, transfer learning, ONNX deployment, and the real-world bugs along the way.
