Get this guy into YC. He knows how to do it, but not how to sell it.
This needs to join the families of devices that find wooden studs, electrical wiring, and plumbing. This is a general purpose technology. It can be reprogrammed to find other things. It should be in a blister-pack at Home Depot if it can be made cheaply, and in a hard case at Tool Town if it can't.
Is there anything that reliably finds wooden studs in walls? I've tried a whole range of different stud finders and all of them are at a level of reliability roughly on par with the Psychic Friends Network: "I think there may be something there... or is it over there? No, perhaps there".
In the end the most reliable way of locating studs I found was going outside, measuring the distance between the nails in the exterior cladding, and then using those measurements on the corresponding inside wall.
Hi, thank you so much for your comment, the research was cool to do, but the market isn't there, and this is not something people really want (to retake YC's wording). You can have all the tech you want, but at the end of the day, the important thing is to have something that really brings value to your customer
Needs a team with someone who works on product fit and market evaluation. A handheld device that analyzes hidden materials cheaply has a market.
Microwave beam-forming and neural nets in a handheld device at a low cost is new technology. And get a patent, or there will be cheap ones from Shenzhen.
there is a dutch DIY reddit group and the most common daily post is: Is this asbestos? if there would be a 20-50 euro device to confirm this im sure plenty would buy it
This needs to join the families of devices that find wooden studs, electrical wiring, and plumbing. This is a general purpose technology. It can be reprogrammed to find other things. It should be in a blister-pack at Home Depot if it can be made cheaply, and in a hard case at Tool Town if it can't.