This sounds a bit like driving a hundred mile round trip to go and visit your next door neighbour.
Kind regards <--- Gordon Smith ---> <[email protected]> Information Technology Accessibility Consultant; Providing Help & Support To Young People LivingWith Visual Impairment, plus Braille Transcription services. On 2 Nov 2013, at 17:07, Dane Trethowan <[email protected]> wrote: Yep okay what I meant was that there's no user knowledge required to use the system but a little knowledge may be needed to configure the system as with a PC or Mac. to explain I suppose as many of you may not know what a Raspberry Pi is, its a computer, just the circuit board without a case or any accessaries and here's where help or a little knowledge may come in as you need to obviously put the computer in a box of some kind, that task is easily enough done though, I know with the 18 or so Pi computers I have here, some are in boxes that the board just slides into. Because of the nature of the Pi there are many and varied cases available and the one I'm talking about is just one of dozens. Then of course you have to add the accessaries you want to meet your needs and environment so this is what I was talking about previously, much as you would with a Windows or a Mac, you'll need a speaker of some sort obviously or else you won't be able to use the "Daisy Pi" at all! we recommend a passive loudspeaker - that is to say its not a powered computer speaker system - it just plugs into to the headphone port on the "Pi", you can of course use headphones if you so desire. Then you have to connect an interface of some sort to one of the USB ports on the "Pi", we're using a dongle with an infra red remote controller, the sort of thing you often see with TV sets and DVD players but you could use a keyboard if you prefer, we chose the remote unit as its far less bulky than a keyboard and is portable and small like the "Pi". And finally you have to insert a USB stick with your Daisy content on it, I'm not entirely satisfied with this method I have to admit and we would very much like to have some online way of retrieving Daisy content by having the "Pi" connected to the Internet, the Internet connection is the simple part but just how much will that make the whole thing harder to use? We reasoned that if users of Daisy players out there already know how to move data from point A to point B as you have to do say with the Book Sense or the Victor Reader Stream then we could use the same concept with the "pi". Again, we're not expecting the world to fall at our feet and nor are we expecting people to abandon the purchase of commercially available Daisy players, this is an alternative wwe're working on as a project in the hope it may help those who are students or others who don't have a whole heap of money, we chose the "Pi" because of its flexibility, take the "Daisy Pi" SD card out and replace it with one which contains data tools such as a Word Processor, Spreadsheet etc. ======================================= The Techno-Chat E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free To modify your subscription options, please visit for forum's dedicated web pages located at http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/techno-chat You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Techno-Chat group at either of the following websites: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/techno-chat/index.html Or: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> you may also subscribe to this list via RSS. The feed is at: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> ---------------------------------------
