Dan,
If you Email me off-list, I'll be glad to give
you some suggestions for how you might be able to
get your Optacon working, without any expense.
My phone number is:
1-408-866-7564
Cheers,
Noel
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Noel Runyan
Email: Noel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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At 03:26 PM 3/18/2020, you wrote:
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Hi All,
I guess my idea of engaging with Orbit Research
wasn't such a good one. It sounds like we will
need to start from the ground up. In the short
term the best thing to do is raise awareness
about the optacon. There are really old videos
about it on YouTube and even an article on
Wikipedia. Someone could make a new video
demonstrating the device and explaining what it
can do that conventional OCR can't. I think
raising awareness will be a tall order. It
doesn't seem that ACB or NFB are even
interested. A number of years ago the ACB
Braille Forum featured an article promoting the
reason for a new optacon but nothing came of
it. I can think of a use case for myself but it
would be complicated to explain by e-mail. I
have an optacon which doesn't work and haven't
had the time to get it fixed. It was a recent
gift from a friend who didn't know what to do
with it. At least she didn't throw it away like
I've heard other people do. My original
training was a long time ago and I coul
dn't afford an optacon so I didn't have an
incentive to keep up my skills. If I do get
the optacon I have fixed I will need to learn
how to use it all over again. It's not my
highest priority right now. If I end up not
doing anything with it than I will give it to
someone in this group. I would like to see it used.
The long-term and much more difficult project is
doing the research to create appropriate
components. This costs time and money and most
importantly the desire to see the project
through. Based on what most of you have said I'm not very optimistic.
Dan
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And on the viPhone list, sometimes, I'm not
reading on a subject, but if Richard has a
message, I do, and I've never seen a scrambled one from him there.
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Hey, Richard,
We're getting junk characters.
Judy
Embrace each day with His mercies and blessings.
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Something is weird on this list! I have gotten three junk messages.
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