[BlindMath] Time left on your work

[Ken Perry]

I have to say I was a Math geek not a science geek when I was in High school
and sighted.  With that said, I did love my Microscope that I got when I was
12 years old though.  I loved to look at things like spider legs and cross
cut sections of this that and the other thing.  Now being 100% blind I was
totally amazed when we put the cross section of an earth worm on the
Microscope with an HDMI camera and fed the output to the graphiti directly.
I could see the vessels on the wall and where the cavity of the stomach was.
It was easy to tell the roundness and the with the different heights there
were different shades / colors represented.  It was a lot like what I
imagine looking at a microscope with a black and white TV would be like.
Before I got the microscope and the sample slides though I had already
downloaded red blood cells from the  a science web sight and you can see the
concave doughnut shape of the blood cells and you can actually count them on
the slide.  It is nothing short of amazing.   

If your coming to CSUN this year we will be having that session I mentioned
and we are going to set up sometimes where people can come work with the
graphiti so I hope to see you and others there.


Ken
From: BlindMath [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Amanda
Lacy via BlindMath
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2018 2:05 AM
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Cc: Amanda Lacy <lacy925 at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [BlindMath] Time left on your work

That is extremely cool.
My memory of a microscope is spinning the glass and twiddling the knobs
because I was bored senseless in a middle school group science lab. I
couldn't appreciate what was happening in any meaningful way, but they
couldn't simply let me do homework because inclusion.

We met at CSUN last year. I don't know if I'd qualify as a tester but I'm
certainly interested.

On 2/21/18, Ken Perry via BlindMath <blindmath at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> We are getting ready to go into field testing on the Graphiti.  It is 
> a tactile Graphing display.  I have met you at the ISLAND conference and
have
> talked to you on other lists in the past.   I am just wondering how much
> more time you have on your degree and or will you be working in the 
> math field after.  With the graphiti statistics is amazing because you 
> can see it real time like any sighted person and I am even currently 
> the first blind person to use a Microscope in any meaningful way.  I 
> am just wondering if you would be interesting in field testing a 
> graphiti if you will be still working in mathematics from now to the 
> end of the year.  If yes when we put a call to field testers on Blind 
> math make sure you sign up because I think this device is going to 
> make Math amazing.  It already interfaces with MATLAB, Orion TI-84m, 
> and Desmos in a  testing environment and it is showing that special 
> math like scatter plots is no longer going to be a problem.
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> Ken
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