📄️ Introduction
Welcome to the Plastic Scanner - a handheld device, which can identify five most common types of plastics.
📄️ How it works
The plastic scanner allows you to scan an object (like a shampoo bottle) and identify its plastic type using an approach called discrete near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy. Sounds like scientific gibberish? It basically means flashing some kind of light on a plastic sample, measuring its reflection and doing some magic with it. The point is, it allows distinguishing between the five most common plastic resins: PET, HDPE, PE, PVC, PP and PS in an affordable, pocket-size manner.
🗃️ Development Board
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🗃️ Handheld Scanner
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📄️ Revision history
This page is made to show which previous versions have been made. It gives you an idea where we came from, what we changed and what worked and what didn't.
📄️ Research
Since the start of the project many people from the community have helped out with research. This page is dedicated to them. If you want to help out with research, please contact us by visiting the contributing page.
📄️ Contribute
The fact that you are reading this page already makes you cool 😎. Now it is time to get you all suited up for development. To make things easy we chose some specific platforms to enable collaberative working.