RE: bluetooth enabled sensors?
- From: "Ken Perry" <whistler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2010 23:13:46 -0500
Just so you know if you buy the scanner at www.bcscan.com you can use the
scanner right with the web browser on the apex as we have been doing for a
while on the Braille+ it has a usb port that you can hook an external
keyboard to so all you do is hook the barcode scanner up run up the web
browser and use google as the scanning program. This also works on the PC
or any device that has usb input.
We thought about doing the blue tooth barcode scanner on the braille+ but
the fact is the blue tooth scanners are very expensive and why cause your
scanner to cost more than a computer?
Ken
-----Original Message-----
From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alex Hall
Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 10:14 AM
To: Blind Programming List
Subject: bluetooth enabled sensors?
Hi all,
This is just a random idea that just popped into my head. I was thinking of
the Braillenote Apex, which (in the near future) will support bluetooth
object exchange. The Apex does not have any devices for it that work, such
as a thermometer, a bar code scanner, and other little sensor-like gadgets.
Two questions:
1. Is there an easy way of taking, say, a thermometer chip, coupling it with
a bluetooth radio, then powering the thing?
2. Almost more importantly, is there a way of sending a kind of message to
another bluetooth device? Could this imaginary thermometer take its reading
and send it to the Apex via bluetooth in a way that the Apex could easily
read, and therefore the user could easily read?
I know this is sort of off-the-wall, but it is just a thought. Imagine if a
bluetooth scanner could work. Then you just store a database of products,
beam the bar code over, copy to the clipboard, and look up the product in
the database. Anyway, thanks for any responses.
Have a great day,
Alex
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