Orbit 20 (Was Re: Linux on access technology)

[Buddy Brannan]

a *very* basic notetaker. No translation or anything like that, so what you type into it is what gets stored. If you haven't seen the manual for it, or at least the preliminary manual for it, it's here:

http://tech.aph.org/tbd_doc.htm

Naturally, there are compromises in the design (somewhat slower refresh rate, for instance, and no cursor routing keys), but both are very acceptable compromises for the price, IMO, especially the cursor routing keys. Yeah, I expect integrating 20 extra switches into the cells would increase the cost by somewhat. Reports are, too, that the braille is excellent quality, reminding some of the braille on signage. 


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> On May 28, 2016, at 9:12 AM, Janina Sajka <janina at rednote.net> wrote:
> 
> I'm not concerned whether or not it's sufficfiently profitable for
> commercial business. There are plenty of nonprofits that would take this
> up, if the value could be demonstrated.
> 
> The forthcoming approx $500 braille device coming from APH is an
> example. It will also be a note taker, apparently.
> 
> 
> Janina
> 
> Gregory Nowak writes:
>> On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 03:36:41AM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote:
>>> This is a pretty sound idea, imo. If we had a box with speakers, braille
>>> keyboard, basic other IO like RJ45, audio, etc., but could simply swap
>>> in mb from time to time to pick up on enhanced cpu, ram, etc., wouldn't
>>> that be pretty future proof? 
>> 
>> Yup, but I can only see a nonprofit or an individual creating such an
>> option. No for profit company would go for it. Can you imagine the
>> loss in revenue if in order to upgrade all a user had to do is to
>> replace the mobo on their own? Let's take it further. What if the
>> entire thing including case and hardware could be printed on a 3d
>> printer, and the stl files were freely available? Keep the cost of the
>> entire thing down to $200 maybe $300 per unit. Allow a bit more if the
>> user wanted a braille display, maybe those could be 3d printed some
>> day too. I wonder if someone started something like that on
>> kickstarter, if it would take off?
>> 
>> Greg
>> 
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