On 30/5/25 17:06, Aura Kelloniemi wrote:
Finally, I would have two questions for those who have used the other multi-line displays currently available (Canute 360 and Dotpad): do these displays have the same issues with refreshing that Monarch has (long refresh times, garbling of the display if touched during a redraw)? Do these displays have any way to point to a specific dot (e.g. to route cursor to a particular position)?
I have only used the Canute 360 briefly at a conference. As I remember, the display was updated only one line at a time. Refreshing the entire display was slow and noisy. It didn't have any form of touch sensor to detect reading position. However, the braille was clear and easy to read. Graphics were supported, but they had to be constructed from ordinary braille cells. In the Monarch, the pins are at an equal distance in both dimensions, facilitating graphical rendering (96 by 40 pins, or equivalently 32 braille cells by 10 lines maximum, allowing for the inter-cell spacing).
I haven't used the Dot Pad, but I was shown a prototype of Dot's technology at the 2019 CSUN Conference. So I'll leave it to those with more current knowledge to comment on the Dot Pad.
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