This post will be a bit of a departure from what we normal discuss in this blog. Ron Voorhees, my dad, and I own a small business in Oregon called Quality Corners. We manufacture specialty millwork products including rosettes, plinth blocks, round base corners and that sort of thing. We need a way to inspect all of those charts, but because we are competing directly with China, we cannot pay very much for our solution. I have to come up with an automatic inspection system to assure that the end products going to the customers are as perfect as we can possibly make them. My idea is to come up with an inexpensive, Linux based visual inspection system, possibly using a webcam to capture the images. After I finish my stock analysis program, that is what I believe I will develop next.
