Like many of us during Covid-19, Benjamin Cabé was baking sourdough bread at home in France. He wondered how he might tell if his dough was done proofing. He began working on an artificial nose that uses physical sensors to detect gas but also uses machine learning to identify the smell. His project is on the cover of Make Magazine, v 77. In this conversation, we talk about how his nose works, how it knows what it does and the limits of what it knows.

Links:

About Make Magazine - Vol 77 - https://makezine.com/2021/05/05/announcing-make-vol-77-machine-learning-and-more/

Buy Make Magazine - Vol 77 - https://www.makershed.com/products/make-magazine-volume-77-print

How Burnt food smells - http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.728.1596&rep=rep1&type=pdf

Artificial Nose - Github Repo - https://github.com/kartben/artificial-nose