Re: Camera That Talks
- From: "Ham Steve" <k8sp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 19:37:02 -0400
GAil,
At the convention it was $3295, but it will be $3495 afterwards.
----- Original Message -----
From: <Gailselfridge@xxxxxxx>
To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 5:02 PM
Subject: Re: Camera That Talks
> Has the price of this KNFB device been announced yet? And a talking device
> that's portable is great, but it won't do what the optacon can do as far
> as
> making diagrams and maps available to us via touch. That is in my opinion
> why a
> tactile device can do so much more. Some of us work with circuit diagrams
> and
> musical notation and black and white maps. Scanning or pictorial devices
> won't
> make these things available to us.
> Gail
>
> rather than simply rebuilding the optacon using the original circuit
> designs with today's technology, it might be sensible to build a
> USB-compatible tactile array in a box with the needed controls, and plug
> it into something like this "camera that talks". I other words, alter and
> refine oleg's readiog machine-based approach. Does it make sense to
> re-develop a stand-alone optacon? From what I am piecing together over
> time of how the optacon R1D and II work (here a little, there a little),
> and with today's technology, it would seem feasible to build an optacon
> about the size of a cassette tape case or thereabouts. (maybe not
> including battery?)
> Charles
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