Re: bluetooth enabled sensors?
- From: Alex Hall <mehgcap@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 07:41:04 -0500
Please explain more about using the scanner with the Apex. How did you
get this to work, and how is the external keyboard necessary?
On 1/9/10, Ken Perry <whistler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>
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> 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-----
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> [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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