[Nfb-science] ideas for labeling small 3-D printed objects

Mon Apr 16 18:38:21 UTC 2018

Hi Kendra,

You make a good point! How about this:

If the fabricated artifacts are located in little compartments or cubbies,
then we could put the bar code or QR code in a particular place on the
bottom of the compartment.  By placing the bar code or QR code in a
predictable place within the compartment -- perhaps even providing a place
to rest the phone and camera so it will focus on the code -- we make it
more likely that a patron of the museum will be able to use the exhibit as
intended.

Designing for interactive exhibits is really a matter of designing the
space so that it is easy to do things one way, and less likely people will
do things in any other way.  This makes it more certain that patrons to the
museum will experience the materials as the experts want them to experience
them.

Of course, one reason to not design in this way is if the goal is to get
the museum patrons to `discover` their own way.  We might design an
interactive exhibit like this to help people learn how archaeologists
design and conduct a dig, in order to better teach the systematic science
behind archaeology.

_don

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Don Winiecki
Handid Media • a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization
dwiniecki at handid.org
http://handid.org
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On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 12:28 PM, Kendra Schaber <redwing731 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi all!
>  The problem with QR scanner apps is that they don’t always see where the
> bar coad is located. Sure, the phone may be able to read the bar code but
> can it actually locate it? Not as well as some people think. Their window
> has to be either tactile for us to line up the phone with the bar code or
> the phone app has to have some sort of audio marker to locate the bar code
> by sound. Where is that gap being filled?
>
>
>
> Blessed be!!!
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>
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>
>
> On Apr 16, 2018, at 09:33, Donald Winiecki via Nfb-science <
> nfb-science at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>
> If the bar code can be associated with an audio file describing the
> artifact, a certain measure of accessibility can be achieved!
>
> If the same bar code were to be associated with a BRF (or similar file)
> that could be sent to a refreshable braille display that would provide a
> different level of accessibility!
>
> Use of a bar code would require a bar code reader.  Modern smartphones have
> the capability to read bar codes, and web resources could be developed that
> allow the smartphone to use the bar code to jump to those resource, and
> then play audio, or send BRF to an attached refreshable braille display.
>
> Tactile braille labels can certainly be created for each replica artifact.
> This label could also include the bar code incorporated into the artifact
> itself.
>
> From there the work of museum design comes into play to invent a physical
> display structure that allows museum patrons to inspect and manipulate the
> artifacts while also having access to audio, electronic braille, and/or
> tactile braille.
>
> I imagine a table-height array of cubbies or compartments, with one
> artifact in each compartment.  The arrangement of compartments and included
> artifacts would allow a patron to
> move from one end of the display to the other in order to 
> experience the artifacts in a particular order
> ,
> so that important time-related cultural, material and usage characteristics
> are learned in
> the sequence that you -- as the anthropological expert -- consider to be
> important.
>
> In my professional history I have been part of the design, construction and
> installation of several cultural and military history museums and find this
> to be an exciting possibility!
>
> Hope I haven't over analyzed this, or stepped on anyone's toes.
>
> Best,
>
> _don
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Don Winiecki
> Handid Media • a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization
> dwiniecki at handid.org
> http://handid.org
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~d
>
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 9:50 AM, Cheryl Fogle-Hatch via Nfb-science <
> nfb-science at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
>
> I am working with a local 3-D scanning company to scan and produce
>
> replicas of artifacts.  We are working with a collection of stone
>
> spear points that are small and triangular in shape.  I am looking for
>
> ideas about affixing Braille labels to them, or embedding something
>
> higher tech into the models as they are made.  The company usually
>
> puts a bar code on the replicas, so figuring out how to access that
>
> information is also a possibility.
>
>
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
>
> Cheryl
>
>
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