sound warriorHi everyone, I'm a totally blind electronic musician. Looking for a audio, developer fluent in C++ d to help me with a very special open source project to assist blind people with electronic music production. If you can help me, or know anyone in your network who can please reach out and get at me. Thanks very much everyone :-) #electronic music :-)
Thanks for the reblogs everyone :-) if I could find someone to help me work on this, it would be a brilliant project that would benefit a lot of people :-) I have no coding experience myself, but really want to help other blind people make wicked, electronic music. :-) for more information, please reply or message me here :-)
Sam Hetchler (Kg6hxm)@soundwarrior20
Good morning! What are you thinking?
A couple years back I helped someone that was having trouble with their code. The code ran a haptic glove that pulsed out letters in braille or Morse code.
I'm here for helping make more things accessible.
privvcy@kg6hxm @soundwarrior20
Can the code be purposed to activate the buzzer on a smartphone, rather than/in addition to the haptic glove? A reliable haptic code emitter app with level control makes messaging over smartphone readable for a visually challenged person (and also for the deafblind, especially in India, who can't afford Braille add-ons)
Can the code be purposed to activate the buzzer on a smartphone, rather than/in addition to the haptic glove? A reliable haptic code emitter app with level control makes messaging over smartphone readable for a visually challenged person (and also for the deafblind, especially in India, who can't afford Braille add-ons)
@privvcy
Tell me more about how the UX could work? I lean towards diy as that's where I have more experience, but concepts should cross. How couple people read a single buzzing of text as Braille?
@soundwarrior20
Tell me more about how the UX could work? I lean towards diy as that's where I have more experience, but concepts should cross. How couple people read a single buzzing of text as Braille?
@soundwarrior20
@kg6hxm @soundwarrior20 Yes, readymade screen reader converts text to audio, so this will convert text to linear buzz, dots, dashes and spaces.
Actually, Braille is not linear, so needs a special purpose haptic display device. That's a different design and construction exercise, and, a quick online search will show it is both prohibitively expensive and prone to breakdown.
R&D needed to identify whether a small multiple buzzer 'plate', with Bluetooth, still quite cheap, can be reliably sensed by touch.
@privvcy
I'm thinking of it has isolated buzzers with rubber between them, that could work....? I mean this is close to what I was thinking anyways. I was just building it into a glove. Have we come full circle?
@soundwarrior20
I'm thinking of it has isolated buzzers with rubber between them, that could work....? I mean this is close to what I was thinking anyways. I was just building it into a glove. Have we come full circle?
@soundwarrior20
@kg6hxm @soundwarrior20 Seems to me that for linear haptic code, the smartphone is enough.
But yes, to do Braille, multiple buzzers are needed, in a particular array (not randomly held in the fingers, like a glove. Though I may not have understood the design being proposed).