| I have had some ideas over the years around home electronics (tools and components) management. I was thinking about building myself a system of QR labelled ziplock bags (inc. antistatic ones) and QR labelled containers. The main concept of my particular system would be to have a camera covering my workspace, and a camera covering a storage area for containers. The system would automatically track which QR labelled bags are in which QR labelled container, and also keep a 'last seen' graph of bags that are near other bags, and containers near other containers, so that you don't have to spend too much effort maintaining the system, and when you want a list of things to work with, the system could help you perform a 'computer enhanced rummage' by using your smartphone and have it highlight containers that you want, and ziplocks that contain the things on your list. Take all those ziplocks out, lay them on your workspace, boom, they are all checked out of the containers by the overhead camera. Place the containers back on your shelves, boom, the shelve cameras know the positions of the boxes. When you are done with the items, place a box on your workspace (recognised by camera) and put the packets back in the one box (those packets then checked in to that box). I don't have a nice workspace to build the system yet, but when I settle into a place I am going to spend more time thinking about it. |