CMOS Camera Rock Paper Scissors Game System - ECE Project

We created a rock paper scissors game that utilizes a CMOS camera to determine what hand the human player plays. The player is required to wear a glove that has black tape taped on each finger. When the player plays the hand, the camera captures in the image, and based on the quantity of black pixels present, processes and decides whether the player has played a rock, paper, or scissors. The system also generates a random hand, and determines whether the player has won or not, and outputs this onto an LCD screen. We started this project out trying to build a camera-based simultaneous localization and mapping system based on image profiles. However, after getting the camera to work, we realized that the speed at which pixels are read from the camera into the STK500 is much too slow for our purposes. Thus, we decided to switch gears and work on a different project that also utilizes the CMOS camera we had working. To this end, we decided to make a rock paper scissors game, as it is a game that everyone knows how to play.
Our project has two main components, the camera and the LCD screen. The LCD screen outputs the current state of the game to the player, while the camera reads in the image to determine what hand the player has played.