21 May
2012
21 May
'12
5:42 p.m.
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 11:14:06AM -0700, David Griffith wrote:
On Mon, 21 May 2012, John Foust wrote:
And it would need a few orders of magnitude less processing power
as well ;-)
Yes, with modern machines and for many tasks, machine cycles are
cheap - but go for brute force when there is a better way?
Kind regards,
Alex.
--
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and
looks like work." -- Thomas A. Edison
At 11:28 AM 5/21/2012, Ethan Dicks wrote:
Why not simply build a paper tape reader? It's not that hard to do. If you were
scanning a short stack of cards, it wasn't so bad, but a 3 foot deck?
You'd spend a lot of time just getting the cards in and out of the
scanner.
Well, there are many scanners that can auto-feed a half-inch-tall pile.
As for paper tape, what about the super-duper overkill of recognizing
a video stream from a web cam? All you'd need is a jig to slowly
pull the tape past the fixed camera.