I actually found some off-the-shelf scientific scales that will work through my lap-top but will await "Moderator" approval to discuss them further.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob Kennedy Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 5:31 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Accurate scale The Science for the Blind site started by Tom Benham is now captek talking tools captek.net It's expensive there too but they are willing to invent to work with you... ----- Original Message ----- From: Tom Fowle To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 2:00 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Accurate scale Lary, About the only two ideas I can suggest are: 1. O-house digital scales used to come with serial ports, which could be read with braille-n-speaks or any talking computer. They were, maybe 10 years ago, very good and quite expensive, but if you need 1 gram, it's gonna cost. 2. if no luck there, check with Tom Benham's wife Lee, who may still be operating his company science products for the blind in Balacynwyd PA. Generically, a scale that does what you want with a serial port is your most likely bet, as actual talking scales with that kind of accuracy are unlikely. Of course you could check with the KNFB reader people and see if they're still claiming the thing can read digital displays, but I wouldn't spend my money without pretty good evidence. If you have no luck, get back to me and we'll do some looking around also. I have a very inexpensive chinese ballance got from Harbor Freight a few years ago with a 1/4Oz weight. with a little care it resolves to that weight easilly and is easy to check tactally, but that's still 7 grams. Of course I have no real idea of the actual accuracy of the weights, although compairing them to a postal scale they seem to agree. tom Fowle Smith-Kettlewell RERC [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ To listen to the show archives go to link http://www.acbradio.org/pweb/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_p age&PAGE_id=33&MMN_position=47:29 Or ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various List Members At The Following address: http://www.jaws-users.com/JAWS/handyman/ Visit the archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ If you would like to join the JAWS Users List, then visit the following address for more information: http://www.jaws-users.com/ For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list just send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Groups Links -- BEGIN-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS ------------------------------------------------------ Teach InfoWest Spam Trap if this mail (ID 183070812) is spam: Spam: https://spamtrap.infowest.com/canit/b.php?i=183070812&m=07ea34cf5fd4&c=s Not spam: https://spamtrap.infowest.com/canit/b.php?i=183070812&m=07ea34cf5fd4&c=n Forget vote: https://spamtrap.infowest.com/canit/b.php?i=183070812&m=07ea34cf5fd4&c=f ------------------------------------------------------ END-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS
