[NJARC] Read resistor values with your smart phone.

[Al Klase]

Thomas,

Have you actually found the app, especially for Android?
All I see is computer geek BS like this: 
https://github.com/thegouger/ResistorScanner
Demo is pretty impressive however: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_bITwduLPk

Al

Al Klase -- N3FRQ
Jersey City, NJ
http://www.skywaves.ar88.net/

On 5/15/2015 3:33 AM, Thomas Lee wrote:
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> This is a cut and a paste from the hackaday site
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>     Reading Resistors With OpenCV
>     <http://hackaday.com/2015/05/14/reading-resistors-with-opencv/>
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> by Brian Benchoff <http://hackaday.com/author/brianbenchoff/>
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> Here's a tip from a wizened engineer I've heard several times. If 
> you're poking around a circuit that has failed, look at the resistor 
> color codes. Sometimes, if a resistor overheats, the color code bands 
> will change color - orange to brown, blue to black, and so forth. If 
> you know your preferred numbers for resistors, you might find a 
> resistor with a value that isn't made. This is where the circuit was 
> overheating, and you're probably very close to discovering the problem.
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> The problem with this technique is that you have to look at and decode 
> all the resistors. If automation and computer vision is more your 
> thing, [Parth] made an Android app 
> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_bITwduLPk> that will automatically 
> tell you the value of a resistor by pointing a camera at it.
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> The code <https://github.com/thegouger/ResistorScanner> uses OpenCV to 
> scan a small line of pixels in the middle of the screen. Colors are 
> extracted from this, and the value of the resistor is displayed on the 
> screen.
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> The app is available for free on the Google Play store 
> <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ca.parth.resistordecoder>.
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