ThingOne wrote:

Henry Dorset Case wrote:

neels wrote:Your next mission is to build a colour sensitive pea picking machine that can differentiate between lovely green peas and horrible black poisonous berries. If you can invent it you can make a fortune because OSH legislation is such that if said machine existed then they would have to buy it to eliminate the risk.

this story was on the TV over the weekend. The issue was that the nightshade berries were unripe: i.e. green.

they are about the same size and colour as the peas, but had a little stalk. colour grading not an option I would think.

Lets not grow deadly nightshade and peas in the same paddock..

ThingOne wrote:

Henry Dorset Case wrote:

neels wrote:Your next mission is to build a colour sensitive pea picking machine that can differentiate between lovely green peas and horrible black poisonous berries. If you can invent it you can make a fortune because OSH legislation is such that if said machine existed then they would have to buy it to eliminate the risk.

this story was on the TV over the weekend. The issue was that the nightshade berries were unripe: i.e. green.

they are about the same size and colour as the peas, but had a little stalk. colour grading not an option I would think.

Lets not grow deadly nightshade and peas in the same paddock..

scatter wrote:

ThingOne wrote:

Henry Dorset Case wrote:

neels wrote:Your next mission is to build a colour sensitive pea picking machine that can differentiate between lovely green peas and horrible black poisonous berries. If you can invent it you can make a fortune because OSH legislation is such that if said machine existed then they would have to buy it to eliminate the risk.

this story was on the TV over the weekend. The issue was that the nightshade berries were unripe: i.e. green.

they are about the same size and colour as the peas, but had a little stalk. colour grading not an option I would think.

Lets not grow deadly nightshade and peas in the same paddock..

Or dope in our maize plots

neels wrote:Your next mission is to build a colour sensitive pea picking machine that can differentiate between lovely green peas and horrible black poisonous berries. If you can invent it you can make a fortune because OSH legislation is such that if said machine existed then they would have to buy it to eliminate the risk.

neels wrote:Your next mission is to build a colour sensitive pea picking machine that can differentiate between lovely green peas and horrible black poisonous berries. If you can invent it you can make a fortune because OSH legislation is such that if said machine existed then they would have to buy it to eliminate the risk.

Trail wrote:Colour sensing machines have been around in food processing plants for ages. I remember seeing one for diced carrots back in the early 90s. big belt of diced carrot wizzing by, under a photo/sensor and little jets of air shot any cube that was the wrong colour into a separate bin. Pretty cool machines actually!!

happybaboon wrote:

Trail wrote:Colour sensing machines have been around in food processing plants for ages. I remember seeing one for diced carrots back in the early 90s. big belt of diced carrot wizzing by, under a photo/sensor and little jets of air shot any cube that was the wrong colour into a separate bin. Pretty cool machines actually!!

Mechanised apartheid for carrots!