DIY defect detection with Roboflow + YOLO
- Problem
- Commercial vision is too expensive for a low-volume line.
- How it works
- Label images in Roboflow, train a detector, run it on an edge device or PC with a USB camera.
- ROI / what to measure
- Low cost if you have someone technical.
- Tools
- Roboflow, Ultralytics YOLO, NVIDIA Jetson
- Est. tool cost
- Roboflow free / $79/mo Core + hardware
- Company size
- 10-200 employees
- Difficulty
- Hard
- Sources
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