RE: How would this work? was a wish list

  • From: Mike Freeman <k7uij@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 13:39:38 -0400 (EDT)

The array is bigger than the camera is wide. You'd have to make the 
camera bigger, thus conflicting with other items on the wish-list.

And the wish-list is, to put it diplomatically, something out of Alice 
and Wonderland. (grin)

Mike

On Thu, 11 May 2006, Sherman, Becky wrote:

> It seems to me that it wouldn't need to be any bigger than the camera.
> The rollers and camera could be on the bottom, of course, and the array
> could sit right on top so that as you rolled the camera across, your
> index finger--or whichever one you use--could be in the array.  How does
> that soulnd?=20
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> [mailto:optacon-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Catherine Thomas
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> I'm having trouble picturing the logistics of the one-handed Optacon.
> The only picture I can come up with is that the camera and the array
> would be one unit so we would only have one piece to hold onto. I think
> the device would still take two hands to operate because we couldn't
> track and read with the same hand, could we? The other question: I have
> trouble fitting the camera into tight places now. If it were somehow
> bigger because it had the array as a part of it, how could it fit
> anywhere? This is not a criticism of the idea. I just can't figure out
> how this works.
> Catherine
>
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