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This needs to join the families of devices that find wooden studs, electrical wiring, and plumbing. This is a general purpose technology. It can be reprogrammed to find other things. It should be in a blister-pack at Home Depot if it can be made cheaply, and in a hard case at Tool Town if it can't.
Get this guy into YC. He knows how to do it, but not how to sell it. This needs to join the families of devices that find wooden studs, electrical wiring, and plumbing. This is a general purpose technology. It can be reprogrammed to find other things. It should be in a blister-pack at Home Depot if it can be made cheaply, and in a hard case at Tool Town if it can't.
So thankful the author posted this. We often learn more from failure than success. Learning from the failures of others is how we can move forward. The lessons learned at the bottom of the article are gold.
Was this AI comment necessary? If you'd like to learn more about the module: https://www.ti.com/tool/IWRL6432BOOST Edit: maybe I am seeing AI everywhere! False positive. :-)
Kinda crazy that it worked but got no commercial interest. Hopefully someone suitable here sees it and can intervene Does it also work through other materials. i.e. through a drywall etc.
I can't say that I believe that it works. Like if you trained a machine learning algorithm to differentiate 10 samples of asbestos containing material from 10 non-asbestos containing materials I wouldn't believe it would work with all the many kinds of materials you would find out in the field in all the configurations that are out there. All that talk of how the electromagnetic properties of asbestos-containing mate…
About AI. Two things you learn in school : for centuries, we measured the world and modelled it using differential equations, and other mathematical concepts. Humans just have a certain limit to finding patterns, and this limit is covered by AI, which when you come to think of it is just a series of calculations to model statistical phenomenons.
Physics is a statistical phenomenon, therefore AI is now being used everywhere in physics to model the world.
> however the big question to answer was : is the radar sensitive enough to tell the difference consistently between a material, and it's same counterpart with asbestos shards and at what concentration ? Unless I missed something, it seems the "POC" device still made no effort to address this, which is the core feature — it just demonstrated classifying some other common materials. If that's true then the conclusions…
Get this guy into YC. He knows how to do it, but not how to sell it. This needs to join the families of devices that find wooden studs, electrical wiring, and plumbing. This is a general purpose technology. It can be reprogrammed to find other things. It should be in a blister-pack at Home Depot if it can be made cheaply, and in a hard case at Tool Town if it can't.
Hi, thank you so much for your comment, the research was cool to do, but the market isn't there, and this is not something people really want (to retake YC's wording). You can have all the tech you want, but at the end of the day, the important thing is to have something that really brings value to your customer
Get this guy into YC. He knows how to do it, but not how to sell it. This needs to join the families of devices that find wooden studs, electrical wiring, and plumbing. This is a general purpose technology. It can be reprogrammed to find other things. It should be in a blister-pack at Home Depot if it can be made cheaply, and in a hard case at Tool Town if it can't.
Hi, thank you so much for your comment, the research was cool to do, but the market isn't there, and this is not something people really want (to retake YC's wording). You can have all the tech you want, but at the end of the day, the important thing is to have something that really brings value to your customer
Get this guy into YC. He knows how to do it, but not how to sell it. This needs to join the families of devices that find wooden studs, electrical wiring, and plumbing. This is a general purpose technology. It can be reprogrammed to find other things. It should be in a blister-pack at Home Depot if it can be made cheaply, and in a hard case at Tool Town if it can't.
In the end the most reliable way of locating studs I found was going outside, measuring the distance between the nails in the exterior cladding, and then using those measurements on the corresponding inside wall.
> I live in Europe, where asbestos is a huge and common pain across every country here. That stuff fills walls, and requires people to come at your place to tell you if you have asbestos contaminated materials in your building. If so, you might have been breathing poison since you were a kid. Asbestos doesn't work like that. If you don't touch it, you're fine. You can live your whole life in asbestos building and be…
It’s not that straightforward. Asbestos comes in many forms with varying friability. Mixed into linoleum floor tiles? Probably not a big deal. Mixed into wall plaster in a poorly maintained rental unit? A hell of a lot riskier. And a lot of the buildings that have asbestos-wrapped pipes, for example, have cramped utility crawl spaces and basements that can make it difficult to avoid. If you’ve got asbestos hidden beh…
Get this guy into YC. He knows how to do it, but not how to sell it. This needs to join the families of devices that find wooden studs, electrical wiring, and plumbing. This is a general purpose technology. It can be reprogrammed to find other things. It should be in a blister-pack at Home Depot if it can be made cheaply, and in a hard case at Tool Town if it can't.
Hi, thank you so much for your comment, the research was cool to do, but the market isn't there, and this is not something people really want (to retake YC's wording). You can have all the tech you want, but at the end of the day, the important thing is to have something that really brings value to your customer