Using AI to reverse engineer hardware

After my mother passed away I ended up with a big box full of old film negatives containing photos from childhood family trips and similar. So I decided to buy a negative photo scanner and found that the Plustek 8200i was supported under Linux so I bought that. Only to discover that the chipset in...
244 points by ErenayDev 6 days ago blogs.gnome.org 236 comments

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A personal journey leads to the discovery of challenges in scanning old film negatives with Linux-compatible hardware. The author recounts their experience with the Plustek 8200i scanner, highlighting the complexities of hardware compatibility and chipset issues.

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