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Re:Show HN: Build a DIY license plate reader with machine le... by parasanti on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @01:05PM (#24494667)
I was thinking the same thing. If it was all localized to a Pi then yes, but outside services isn't really DIY so much. Maybe half DIY if such a thing.
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Re:Show HN: Build a DIY license plate reader with machine le... by sokoloff on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @01:28PM (#24494954)
On the other hand, I would tend to agree that this project is a "DIY Alexa" (edit to add: in the minds of most readers of Instructables website): https://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-Amazon-Alexa/
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Re:Show HN: Build a DIY license plate reader with machine le... by hundchenkatze on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @01:46PM (#24495167)
This is another example of what the GP comment is complaining about. It's not a DIY Alexa. Alexa is the virtual assistant API. This is a DIY Amazon Echo that still relies on the Alexa service.
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Re:Show HN: Build a DIY license plate reader with machine le... by sokoloff on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @01:57PM (#24495302)
As an engineer and a technologist, I agree that you and GP are precisely correct.

If you showed it to and asked a string of randoms off the street, I think way more than half would agree with the "DIY Alexa" label as reasonably communicative description and more useful than a longer but more precise title.

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Re:Show HN: Build a DIY license plate reader with machine le... by hundchenkatze on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @02:22PM (#24495666)
Yeah, that's a good point. It's easy to get caught up in our little tech bubble :)
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