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I wonder if it would have been worth it to build a device to scan the skittles for you.

edit: would love an explanation for the downvotes

I didn't downvote you but he did have a threshold for "this misshapen lump isn't a skittle"

Thanks. I also think people are latching onto the word "device" strongly. I really just meant some form of automation.

A device seems like overkill. Write code to apply machine vision to this grid: https://possiblywrong.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/skittles_a...

You'd probably want a jig for that, wouldn't you?

Hence, building.

I think the fastest and most accurate process would be to:

* empty a pack of skittles onto white paper and take a photo

* use some existing image recognition libraries to count each color

* export to csv or smn and do excel magic

Even without an image recognition library, it should be possible to simply count the pixels and how close to red, green, blue, etc. they are to know how many skittles there are in the picture.

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