[chuck-users] Multiline Braille display

[Robert Poor]

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 21:29, Rich Caloggero <rjc at mit.edu> wrote:
> ... One of the inherent problems with speech, and this one-finger
> braille concept, is that the image is not static; it is essentially moving
> in time and requires you to build up a static image in your mind.  Think of
> how difficult it would be to lood at a page of code through a straw...

Uh, ten  fingertip sized mice?  <smile>

Actually, why not?  It would be an worthwhile engineering challenge to
get the spatial / temporal fidelity high enough that you forget that
they're there.  Just as long as they wouldn't stop you from typing or
doing other useful things with your hands.

I had a blind friend who was a master audio engineer, and wanted me to
build him a V.U. meter that he'd strap on his arm.  I would have done
it, except he really wanted electrical shocks rather than physical
actuators.  In retrospect, it probably just needed a constant current
high-voltage supply, but I didn't have the nerve...