[raspberry-vi] Re: A low cost Raspberry based computer for the blind (Amanda and Rich)
- From: Rich Morin <rdm@xxxxxxxx>
- To: raspberry-vi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2017 20:32:13 -0700
David Arocho wrote:
These ideas are not new. As a matter of fact the American Printing House
for the Blind brought out a linux driven note taker about seven years ago,
called the Braille Plus. It utilized available open source software. The
daisy reader was excellent, the mail application worked flawlessly, but the
web browser was agonizingly slow and the editor was not too great. All in
all, though, it was a very well thought out machine. I still have one that
works. The problem, however, was the price of $1300.
Part of the problem may have been the fact that it only "utilized available
open source software", rather than encouraging their users to add software,
let alone posting their work on a public archive for others to build upon.
-r
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