Point and Reuse

Point and Reuse

An app that allows users to take a picture of any object, match it against the Universal Registry of Things and instantly evaluate or learn about its potential for reuse and upcycling.

Description

The app allows citizens, members of zero waste initiatives, repair professionals or anyone interested to quickly evaluate the potential value of an object, and find information on how to reuse it.

Functionalities:

  • Make/upload picture
    • *server-side computer vision matches against the database)
  • Browse by brand or type
  • Search

Relation to other concept ideas

Point and Reuse is mainly a user/citizen interface for the Universal Registry of Things.

Open Questions

  • How reliable are the computer vision possibilities?
  • Other ways to identify: serial number, RFID, qr code / barcode
  • Privacy / security (unintended effects)

Sketches

! to come

Main target groups

  1. Community Reuse
  2. Professional Repair
  3. Citizen / Household

Supporting Research Data

"So I guess- I don’t know about you guys really, but what I’ve noticed, there is a- For example, the food mixers I work on, these Kenwood Chefs, a lot of them, different variants. To replace those with the modern equivalent would be between £200 and £400. But the repair would be a tenth, roughly, to me, of that purchase. So the old item, it doesn’t matter how old it is, still has value."

References

Google Lens

Search what you see

lens.google.com

ODK - Object Detection Kit

Convert garbage into resources The garbage on our streets can have a lot of value when it is repurposed. ODK aims to take a step forward into circularity, making it easier to give garbage a new life.

odk.ai

Pi Trash Classifier

Build a custom trash classifier using the Raspberry Pi and Lobe, a beginner-friendly machine learning program (without coding).

hackster.io/jenfoxbot

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