[Tactile-Talk] newhaptics

[carcione at access.net]

Most of the images I come across are in PDFs.  Can any of the devices handle an image from that format?  I’m thinking of print music and knitting charts as examples.  

Print music is 5 lines with notes in various places, often spanning multiple lines.

Knitting charts are rows of rectangular boxes with symbols in them, and a key explaining the symbols.

Tracy

 

 

From: Tactile-Talk <tactile-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Alfred D'Agostino via Tactile-Talk
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Good morning.

 

Aside from the development of a full-page display from Newhaptics, and the Graphiti and Monarch, are there any other existing devices or ones being developed?

 

In general, what form does a graphic have to be in to be translated into the raised-dot format? on these devices? That is, taking a photocopy and digitizing it into bitmap; or if already in digital form, how is it translated into ‘pixels’ on the  device. 

How does a figure in a online digital textbook get translated? Is there a standard protocol / interface?

 

Alfred

    

 

On Wed, Sep 18, 2024 at 7:32 PM Ken Perry via Tactile-Talk <tactile-talk at nfbnet.org <mailto:tactile-talk at nfbnet.org> > wrote:


Yes I have seen it. This is an off shoot of University of Michigan and was
called the Holy Braille.  If you do a search you can probably find a video
on it.   It runs on Air and the under lying  technology has a rubber mat
like material that pushes up pins.  It can run on a air pump or CO2
cartridge.  It has micro vacuoles that open and close to move the pins up
and down.  I like how compact the material is and I have helped with some of
my knowledge in the past . I have my worries about its power source but they
are showing the technology now and it can be resized to make larger
displays.  I say the more types of technologies out there the better.  




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Cc: Rich Caloggero <rjc at mit.edu <mailto:rjc at mit.edu> >
Subject: [Tactile-Talk] newhaptics

Anyone heard of this company or seen their haptic display? They were at CSUN
this past spring.


https://www.newhaptics.com/about


-- 
Rich Caloggero
Accessibility Specialist
Disability and Access Services
Massachusetts Institute of Technology


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