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Re:Taking the SCiO Food Analyzer Grocery Shopping by jasonlaramburu on Thursday March 23, 2017 @03:18PM (#13943198)
I got a scio dev kit from kickstarter. I backed it because they claimed at launch you would be able scan the leaf of a living plant and determine if it was sufficiently watered. Unfortunately this functionality, along with many other promised applets, was never built and the dev forums are prettmuch dead. When I looked into building my own model, I found the time required is pretty huge. To build a remotely useful model, one would need to scan between 200 and 300 samples. That means 200-300 individually potted plants for every plant variety you want to measure!!!
Re:Taking the SCiO Food Analyzer Grocery Shopping by xkcd-sucks on Thursday March 23, 2017 @08:08PM (#13945501)
Yeah I was really excited about working with it, limitations notwithstanding... Until learning they charged $$$ for a dev license, which seems like a slap in the face and a hallmark of scams. Now I'm just waiting for used units to hit eBay + reverse engineer the protocol.

I'm not quite interested enough yet to buy bare Hamamatsu (or neospectra/other knockoff?) spectrometer chips, but would totally buy a breakout PCB for one if somebody had a bunch made

Re:Taking the SCiO Food Analyzer Grocery Shopping by joshvm on Thursday March 23, 2017 @08:44PM (#13945651)
About $200 for a hamamatsu breakout: https://groupgets.com/manufacturers/hamamatsu-photonics/prod...

They've just finished a round, but they're reasonably regular.

Re:Taking the SCiO Food Analyzer Grocery Shopping by hgchoi on Thursday March 23, 2017 @08:47PM (#13945661)
Also, ~$150 for a nanolambda nsp32 spectrum sensor

https://www.nanolambda.net

Re:Taking the SCiO Food Analyzer Grocery Shopping by rosser on Thursday March 23, 2017 @07:03PM (#13945136)
I also bought one during the crowdfunding campaign, and am pretty deeply disappointed at the difference between advertised and actual capabilities.