ng dụng Pickr giúp kiểm tra độ chín của trái cây và rau củ, cung cấp mẹo kéo dài tuổi thọ và giảm lãng phí. Gửi thông báo khi thực phẩm gần hết hạn. #Pickr #TráiCây #RauCủ #ngDụng #FreshFood #Ripeness #Fruits #Vegetables #FoodWaste

https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/1or0geq/scan_fruits_vegetables_for_ripeness/

@researchbuzz
#food #waste #ripeness

If this tool can measure fruit and veg quality and save some of the waste, that would be wonderful.

But how can anyone be expected to eat, say, a peach that has been shipped 10,000km, is out of season, is hard as a lump of coal, and bitter as a pill?

Or a tomato that has been bred for a million bumps in a truck but no flavour?

How about growing the right crops in the first place. These inedible luxury crops have to mostly end up wasted.

"If you’re still thumping those melons to see if they’re ripe, here’s a better method"

This is quite true. A better method is to sit on them. If the melon feels really hard against your butt, it is not ripe yet. If it collapses, it is overripe. You want to find the sweet spot, where it does not collapse, but it has a little bounce in it. That's when you know you got a melon that is just right, and can be used as a chair.

Next week: how to determine whether your cat is ripe, without getting clawed.

#gardening #melon #ripeness #sit #cat #satire #USnews

https://www.kansascity.com/living/liv-columns-blogs/kc-gardens/article278301413.html

ICYMI:

The Mysterious Case of the Fake #GayMarriage Website, the Real Straight Man, & the #SupremeCourt

In filings in the #303CreativeLLCvElenis case is a supposed request for a gay wedding website—but the man named in the request says he never filed it.

#ripeness #law #legal #SCOTUS #JudicialActivism #minoritarianism #LGBTQ+Rights #equality #equity #discrimination #precedent
https://newrepublic.com/article/173987/mysterious-case-fake-gay-marriage-website-real-straight-man-supreme-court

Detecting Ripeness in Fruit and Vegetables Via Neural Networks

Humans have an innate knack for identifying food that is fit to eat. There's a reason you instinctively enjoy fresh fruit and vegetables, but find maggot-infested rotting flesh offputting, for example. However, we like to automate as much of the food production process as possible so we can do other things, so it's necessary to have machines sort the ripe and ready produce from the rest at times. [kutluhan_aktar] has found a way to do just that, using the power of neural networks.

The project's goal is a straightforward one, aiming to detect ripeness in fruit and vegetables by monitoring pigment changes. Rather than use a camera, the project relies on data from an AS7341 visible light sensor, which is better suited to capturing accurate spectral data. This allows a better read of the actual light reflected by the fruit, as determined by the pigments in the skin which are directly related to ripeness.

Sample readings were taken from a series of fruit and vegetables over a period of several days, which allowed a database to be built up of the produce at various stages of ripeness. This was then used to create a TensorFlow model which can determine the ripeness of fruit held under the sensor with a reasonable degree of certainty.

The build is a great example of the use of advanced sensing in combination with neural networks. We suspect the results are far more accurate than could have reasonably be determined with a cheap webcam, though we'd love to see an in-depth comparison as such.

Believe it or not, it's not the only fruit spectrometer we've featured in these hallowed pages. Video after the break.

#mischacks #fruit #produce #ripe #ripeness #vegetable #vegetables