Smart Calculator W/Raspberry Pi

Hi all, I'm new to working with Raspberry Pi's, but I figured they would be useful to use on a new project I'm working on. I'm planning on working on making a smart(er) calculator that uses the Raspberry Pi camera to allow my calculator to be able to take a picture of an equation, and then using a Raspberry Pi, send it to a math website (probably Photomath), and then send back the websites results. I'm mostly just curious if this is something that I can do with Raspberry Pi's, since as I mentioned, I'm new to working with them, and am not sure of their capabilities. If anyone can give some clarification, I'd appreciate it a bunch. Thanks!

I was going to 3d print a custom case for the back of it and use a TI-84 Plus CE.

Since the TI-84 Plus CE is already very slim, and just printing a custom case wouldn't make it too bulky

<@661583386992836619> I was going to modify it to look like this

Keeping the face of the calculator, but cutting in a small hole in the bottom left and adding in a 3d printed button that lets you take photos. The other red outline on the left would just be a custom printed 3d backpiece to the calculator that holds the components + the cam and raspberry pi, and the blue square is the raspberry pi camera.

Should be doable. I'm just not familiar with working w/Raspberry Pi's

<@661583386992836619> Hey, just checking back in to see if you had any tips for this project?

The Raspberry Pi camera would have to receive a signal from a button that tells it to take a photo, and then the raspberry pi camera would send that photo to a website like photomath

That should be doable, right? Or what did you get done before you gave up on the project?

Yes, triggering the camera to take a picture is easy, and there is a lot of description for it, ex. https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/projects/getting-started-with-picamera

And to send the picture to a web depends on what the webservice allow, API, HTTP Post or other delivery method. I think that I saw that photomath has an API.

Gotcha, thanks for the response <@796000224690307072> <@661583386992836619>, would it also most likely be easy to display the answer back onto the calculator screen?

It would most likely have to display the entire page from the website, since I don't think there would be a way to specifically display just the answer and solution.

But that shouldnt be a problem, I'd assume

^ Or if you have any ideas of better beginner projects lol, realizing this might be a bit of a big project seeing as I've never worked with Raspberry Pi's before.