Anyone who is blind, or who has worked with the blind, knows how expensive our technology can be. This couldn't be more true with relation to braille displays. Even the cheapest costs at least $799, and it's already behind the newest in that line, at $899. This is the Orbit Reader 20 and 20+. Now, a student in India wants to change that by creating a display that is truly affordable (under $50)! Please pass this on, so that we can give him greater recognition within the blind community. Even if it costs a bit more than he initially suspected it would, there is no excuse for the $2,000 to $5,000 average price of such technology when cheaper alternatives can be designed! He is determined to bring this to market, so let's help him do it and show our appreciation for his hard work on this life-changing project!
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in reply to Georgiana Brummell • • •Billy Smith
in reply to Georgiana Brummell • • •Chewy design! 😁
This is similar but different to the Hackaday solution:
hackaday.io/project/191181-ele…
Electromechanical Refreshable Braille Module
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in reply to Georgiana Brummell • • •It would be worth his looking at the Sensorica business model:
sensorica.co/ventures
They only work on OSHW, but the people working on the hardware get paid for the designs, and, then use localised manufacturing for the distribution. 😁
It gets the overall energy-costs down per end-user, but still means that the engineers involved can get paid a fair rate. 😁
peer into the future - Ventures
www.sensorica.cooscarfalcon
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in reply to Georgiana Brummell • • •there's some dodgy JavaScript halfway down that page that crashes my browser 🙄
Anyway, this is the type of projects I'd definitely give to if they crowd fund!
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in reply to Georgiana Brummell • • •this looks great but it's just a single module, right?
If someone wants to read braille, I imagine (but I don't know, I'm very happy to be corrected) they'll want to move their finger along the word or phase and be able to go back and forth if needed.
Wikipedia reckons most braille displays have 40-80 characters, while some note taking devices have less.
If he can still keep it cheap and robust with that many characters then great!
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This, and also, is 86% recognition enough for actual use ?
@hypra would you know that ?
There's also the question of the time needed to read (which I guess is related to the issue you're mentioning); though a 30$ braille reader would still be useful even if very slow I suppose, for those who have no way to afford the costlier ones.
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You can write pages and pages of text and place it in an image, but actual characters in comments and "alt" boxes are restricted to a couple of paragraphs by default. And this is because they try to emulate twitter looks and functionality. 95% of server owners either refuse/defend the choice or pretend it is hard to change
#500characterlimit
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