[Electronics-Talk] fopydo.com scanner stand for the blind

[tina sohl]

Thank you for shuch a detailed description. I had thought about one of 
these, but you just helped me make up my mind.
Original message:
> I got help assembling my stand last night and I think this is a good
> concept.  The instructions probably could have been written better since
> it took a while to figure out how to assemble.  I don't know if I have a
> 2nd generation stand or a 1st generation stand; mostly made of durable
> cardboard with a little metal, plastic and microtape.  It comes packaged
> flat and is opened by slipping a tab out of a hole in the cardboard sheet.
> The microtape is sticky to the touch and where that is will end up being
> the scanning shelf for the camera and will hold the camera.  There are
> perforations in the cardboard for bending points to assemble the stand
> these are hinges not tear points.  The metal in the stand is actually two
> legs that fold out 90 degrees from the edge of the stand and that is how
> the stand gets and remains upright since the legs and edge of the stand
> serve as the base that is placed on a flat surface.  So when assembled,
> the legs and edge of the stand are on a table, a foot high piece of
> cardboard goes vertical off the table top from the base up to the scanning
> shelf with microtape facing up.  The perforation at the front end of the
> shelf once bent down has a semicircle in it.  The piece of cardboard that
> got bent down from the perforation on the front of the scanning shelf has
> a tab on it and that tab goes back into the hole in the foot high vertical
> cardboard.  When that happens the scanning shelf has a vertical triangular
> shape and is stable.  To use the stand, devices get removed from
> protective cases since microtape at least in my experience does not stick
> to an Otter Defender case and the device is placed so the back camera
> about a half inch in diameter is lined up with that semicircle and the
> camera lens is a half inch forward of the semicircle.  Then put document
> for scanning or book on table so camera can see it from a foot above and
> start using the scanning software in your devices.  These stands can be
> returned to the packaged unassembled state to take places and are light
> weight too.



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