I’ve found for shelf labels / small parts boxes to put a small picture of the item. While I know the real name of the parts, roboteers don’t , the pictures help.
Our teacher suggested something along the lines of a barcode system
In terms of counting inventory I still have to think more on this lol
About making it public, honestly it might be a while cuz this project is currently pretty terrible per my standards
VEX IQ is a maybe because its my first year in robotics and I am not familiar with the system, though theoretically it should be usable since you would just have to list the parts yourself.
little update, the previous UI component I was using (streamlit) had too many restrictions, so I’ve instead opted to use pyscript and essentially completely write the UI from scratch.