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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 suff
by jasonlaramburu 10y ago
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!!!
- rosser 10y agoI also bought one during the crowdfunding campaign, and am pretty deeply disappointed at the difference between advertised and actual capabilities.
- xkcd-sucks 10y agoYeah 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
- joshvm 10y agoAbout $200 for a hamamatsu breakout: https://groupgets.com/manufacturers/hamamatsu-photonics/products/c12666ma-micro-spectrometer https://groupgets.com/manufacturers/hamamatsu-photonics/prod... They've just finished a round, but they're reasonably regular.
- hgchoi 10y agoAlso, ~$150 for a nanolambda nsp32 spectrum sensor https://www.nanolambda.net https://www.nanolambda.net