Weird view on OSS...
I'm still in university but my GitHub profile would've already gotten me 13 offers if I would've been into starting to work for a company.
It got me my first talk on a conference, got me in contact with a lot of different, very interesting opportunities and people from around the world.
Haven't seen a single disadvantage in it, yet. Not even one.
Hey, you're right. But since I'm a CS student who likes to try out and learn stuff, over engineering is not a bad thing for me.
For a little home, we have an unnecessarily large inventory and it is really comfortable to just look it up on the smartphone than take the staircase to the basement and search through the stock :D
It's not just ketchup btw ;)
I'm still searching for an over engineered use case for my new label printer...
The printing with this system is simply done with a Wifi printer nearly anyone (at least here in Germany) has at home.
You can simply print a list of all the stock and if you want even a simple groceries list of which items are empty ;)
We installed a new shelf but once this one is full, you still got the problem. I mean, you could add even more, but at one point the room is full and you're back where you started :D
Yes, i thought about that in the beginning too.
The problem i had was, that if a product isn't already in the database (outpan), you have to enter the name to add it.
I really dislike capacitive displays, especially writing on them and i think a onscreen keyboard is also really annoying.
Right now i have a keyboard which has a little touchpad, to get rid of the separate mouse.
But i also would prefer a touchscreen. Being spoiled from the nice keyboards on smartphones and tablets, i couldn't live with a PC onscreen keyboard.
I'm sorry, i didn't explain it very well, i'll definitely fix that.
Basically the problem was, that we had a lot of groceries in large amounts while the ones we needed weren't there at all.
If we went shopping we mostly forgot to check what we already have and bought even more of the things we already had, forgetting the stuff we needed.
The Project therefore is a simple tool to scan your products and keep a list of the things you have (with the amount).
If you're on your way to the grocery store and you realise, that you don't really know if you need this or that product, you can simply VPN into your home network and check the stuff you have at home.