[BRLTTY] Getting my braille driver for the FCHAD working.

[timothyhobbs at seznam.cz]

Unfortunately, it'll be a few years till you get your hands on one.  Right 
now I have the circuits drawn out on a test board, and that test board 
resides in a cardboard box.  The box is powered from the wall, rather than 
by battery.  I currently only use one MPR121 touch controller which limits 
me to 12 sensors when we'd like somewhere closer to the standard 80.   I 
also don't have any routing keys on this thing, and would like to add an 8 
key keyboard(also touch based).  I have to write yet another driver/firmware
mix(agh!) because I am going to move to a system that uses either a 
raspberry pi or similar, and such a tiny computers own built in GPIO pins.  
No need for complex drivers and packet control there, just different 
problems. I already have almost complete designs in my head, but moving 
things from the mind into the hands is tedious and time consuming work.  I 
cannot even start on those "final touches" for another year due to my 
academic schedule.  Every couple of months, we hear about a new braille 
display project.  Most of them seem to involve high tech materials that don'
t even exist yet.  Most of those projects never reach the stage where I am 
now, and the ones which do seem to have never gotten past it.  I say that, 
given that you are reading this on a peizo display who's technology dates 
back to the days of ed(the text editor).  It is for this reason, that I'd 
like to promise nothing at all.  The only promise that I can make, is that 
if I do ever get something "to market" it will be open source.




Timothy



---------- Původní zpráva ----------
Od: Dave Mielke <dave at mielke.cc>
Datum: 24. 10. 2012
Předmět: Re: [BRLTTY] Getting my braille driver for the FCHAD working.
"[quoted lines by timothyhobbs at seznam.cz on 2012/10/24 at 01:30 +0200]

>I should be having the chance to test prototype #2 in the coming weeks.  I'
m
>so excited!  I am confident I can beat the opticon in both price and 
>durability :D !

Now, If I only had arms long enough to reach across the ocean, I could try 
it 
out.

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