tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6607394033450724549.post4527746161021741823..comments2023-02-11T03:57:05.047-08:00Comments on Nothing Labs (Rich Olson): Resistor Photo IDRich Olsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08755861816407417985noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6607394033450724549.post-4207335273409908942013-01-22T10:52:35.365-08:002013-01-22T10:52:35.365-08:00Seconded as well, as I have a 'Droid here.
On ...Seconded as well, as I have a 'Droid here.<br />On the flip side, can someone do one of these for those nasty little SMD resistors? A lot of folks spot recycle these from dead boards and the 0603 are not human readable.<br />Capacitors are sometimes UV marked with little dots so aren't easily ID'd.<br />conundrumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00367656902932421352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6607394033450724549.post-52288670617595266632012-07-14T11:24:11.213-07:002012-07-14T11:24:11.213-07:00I'll second that request, would definitely be ...I'll second that request, would definitely be willing to pay for this on Android!Jedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05809910910186047871noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6607394033450724549.post-8078255223997898412012-03-28T01:33:19.215-07:002012-03-28T01:33:19.215-07:00haven't dipped my toes into doing android stuf...haven't dipped my toes into doing android stuff yet - so I'm not planning on doing a version any time soon.<br /><br />but - I'm certainly not claiming any "rights" to the idea - so if any android devs want to make a clone - go for it!Rich Olsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08755861816407417985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6607394033450724549.post-6826831395613608622012-03-27T05:05:31.438-07:002012-03-27T05:05:31.438-07:00I have wanted something like this for a long time....I have wanted something like this for a long time. Any chance you would make it for an android? I would be willing to pay a reasonable price for the Android app.David Powellhttp://www.baltimorehackerspace.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6607394033450724549.post-40611619029293905462012-03-21T10:56:27.027-07:002012-03-21T10:56:27.027-07:00This is a great app and it seems like it will be v...This is a great app and it seems like it will be very helpful for people learning about resistors.Power Resistorshttp://www.riedon.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6607394033450724549.post-80245602945258860452012-03-07T12:04:38.097-08:002012-03-07T12:04:38.097-08:00thanks for the feedback! these are all good ideas...thanks for the feedback! these are all good ideas - and will consider them if I find time to rev. the app.<br /><br />-RichRich Olsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11500135711444482904noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6607394033450724549.post-3097385133227187342012-03-02T06:19:34.523-08:002012-03-02T06:19:34.523-08:00Wow! This is such a great idea! I have a hard time...Wow! This is such a great idea! I have a hard time with resistors, too, mostly due to color blindness but also with the small sizes and getting older. I played around with it with the CAPTCHA on the Adafruit blog, which is where I read about it. Hope you won't mind a few suggestions:<br /><br />1. Seems like adding support for 5-stripe resistors wouldn't be too difficult. I've not come across one in real life, so it doesn't affect me personally. Just a thought.<br /><br />2. You could add a little "AI" or sanity checking on values. For instance, the app read the first stripe as Black in one case. I don't think that's possible. Probably if it looks black in that case, it's brown. There were a couple of black/brown misses, but some of that may be due to the fact that I was taking pictures of an image of a pretend resistor on a computer screen.<br /><br />3. To expand on the above concept, there is a well known series of extremely likely values, esp. in the context on a given tolerance. Your app could hypothetically take this into account when deciding what color a band is. If trying to decide whether a resistor is 47 or 57 ohms, well, it's very likely 47. Probably more work than you'd want, but it could make it into the "killer resistor photo id" app :-)<br /><br />4. A couple of times when going to take a photo, the shutter leaves didn't open. Not sure what was going on there.<br /><br />5. Most of all, *thank you* for a great idea brought to fruition! Kudos!Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02164922470199520804noreply@blogger.com