As I was hunched over at the waist today....looking for those pesky .380 cases.....it hit me:
There should be a phone app (that uses the camera) and beeps/highlights when it sees cases that you tell the app you want to find. On the one hand (even though I'm kind of a techie) I don't think it would be that hard to do. But on the other hand I wouldn't know how to do it.
One of the challenges would be calibrating for how high off the ground the phone is. But that wouldn't be that hard to do. Put a couple of known cases on the ground, hold the phone where you want to hold it, and push a Calibrate button.
I can see it in my mind's eye now: From a menu pick the cases you want: e.g. 9mm, .380, .38 Spcl. Use the phone/app to scan the ground...and it beeps when it sees a case....like a metal detector.
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There should be a phone app (that uses the camera) and beeps/highlights when it sees cases that you tell the app you want to find. On the one hand (even though I'm kind of a techie) I don't think it would be that hard to do. But on the other hand I wouldn't know how to do it.
One of the challenges would be calibrating for how high off the ground the phone is. But that wouldn't be that hard to do. Put a couple of known cases on the ground, hold the phone where you want to hold it, and push a Calibrate button.
I can see it in my mind's eye now: From a menu pick the cases you want: e.g. 9mm, .380, .38 Spcl. Use the phone/app to scan the ground...and it beeps when it sees a case....like a metal detector.
OR