What if your fridge told you what’s in stock when you’re sitting in the office deciding the dinner menu? Would that make your decision to cook easy, or perhaps sort the inventory, so the fridge never runs dry of milk, veggies, or other supplies? If yes, Redditor Mimobeano has a solution in the smart fridge that uses Raspberry Pi as its brain and Chat GPT4 running in its veins.
The likes of LG, Samsung, and Bosch are already making this future possible with state-of-the-art, AI-powered fridges. But there is no prize for guessing, their options are going to be out of an average bloke’s pocket. So how do we step into the future of smart?
Mimobeano’s project is exactly where we can start. He has tinkered with a system that allows his fridge to tell what food is in it from anywhere. This information ensures the DIYer consumes the stock before it expires or can decide on the menu before getting home based on the available supplies.
According to Mimobeano, this was his project in 2022. The fridge then worked on Raspberry Pi, took 2000+ photos, and it was tuned to object detection model that identified 12 items. With the integration of Chat GPT4, the smart fridge has a larger viability and is trained for thousands of pictures and learning.
The Chat GPT-enabled smart fridge can keep track of the food in your fridge. On opening the fridge, you trigger the Pi which helps take a picture of the stock on the shelves using an HQ camera with a wide-angle lens. This data is analyzed with Chat GPT, returning to the user only the latest picture with the list of foods it can see in the photo when they want to know what’s in their fridge.
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For safety and to make the process efficient, Mimobeano only calls the generative AI API when the user wants to know the contents in the fridge. The DIYer uses Telegram to trigger it with the bot operated by Raspberry Pi.
Minobeano explains – this is not a foolproof model – he plans to upgrade the smart AI fridge project with 3D-printed mount that would capture images from better angles. The model would also check for food freshness, whether a certain item in the fridge is close to expiring, and even suggest recipes using GPT4, Minobeano notes.
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