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Needing to drill a hole in a wall separating two rooms in order to feed a cable through it recently made me think about using an array of ESP32 in order to atte
by qwertox 5y ago
Needing to drill a hole in a wall separating two rooms in order to feed a cable through it recently made me think about using an array of ESP32 in order to attempt to create a mapping of the inside of the wall, so that I don't hit any pipes or electrical cables by accident.
The walls we have here are of concrete with steel, so the traditional, cheap wiring / object detectors are basically useless.
I wonder if this is possible without dedicating months of tinkering and possibly ending with the need to learn about AI to interpret the data.
- Joeri 5y agoHow would you even train the AI without building lots of walls of different but precisely known structures and densities?
- withinboredom 5y agoI would imagine a human can do it post-scan with enough time. If you teach an AI to do it in real-time, there’s no need to build a bunch of walls.
- ruined 5y agoluckily, existing walls of known construction are widely available
- asdff 5y agoYou'd be surprised at how many liberties contractors of various pay grades can take behind drywall
- asdff 5y agoSeems simpler to just stick a pencil in the first hole and see if you are clear to the other side.