Pranav's suggestions seem quite sensible. What I was hoping to see when I
broached this subject was the building of a team that would undertake this
kind of project. It seems to me that individual efforts along these lines
eventually fail for lack of resources and breadth of imagination. So far
this has not happened. The team does not have to be large, but should
include target users and programmers, and some initial planning, something
on the order of an expanded list such as Pranav proposes but in the form of
a business plan. I for one would be willing to provide my management skills
and experience to such a team. It is easy to make suggestions to Amanda and
Rich, and many of those are helpful, but only when a team of volunteers gets
committed to work on the project can we move forward in a meaningful
endeavor. The NVDA screen reader team might serve as a model.
David
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[mailto:raspberry-vi-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Pranav Lal
Sent: Friday, August 04, 2017 10:50 PM
To: raspberry-vi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [raspberry-vi] Re: A low cost Raspberry based computer for the
blind (Amanda and Rich)
Hi,
A few things.
1. Please see the after-sight.org web page. It has a design of a machine
that
uses the raspberry pi with an internal battery. It is for the vOICe but it
should work for your note taker.
2. There is a very cool commandline daisy player which I have got working
with
the pi but I cannot remember its name. It was made by someone in the
Netherlands.
3. I vote for using fenrir as a screen reader because it runs in user space.
4. We can use nano as an editor.
5. As for e-mail, I do not know if there are commandline or text mode e-mail
clients that can handle encrypted connections and HTML e-mail.
6. Lynx still works but is a pain to use.
I suggest you do the following.
1. Stick to the raspberry pi 3.
2. Come up with a script that pulls in a software bundle of choice on to the
pi
or any other Linux computer such as the Odroid. You can build your own image
and
perhaps charge say $10 for it so that you begin to get some cash flowing.
3. Once you have something concrete, work on creating the hardware design.
4. Release your first version.
5. Move to the GUI if necessary.
6. Release the second version of the machine.
Pranav
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