Subnostr

http://www.geeplusasia.co.jp/

This gave me chills. I would love to help build a device that could put sovereign stacks in the hands of the blind. I lean toward braille rather than text to voice because its more secure from my perspective in terms of being overheard but we're still at the stage where people can self-custody and the blind shouldnt be left behind nostr:npub1q6ya7kz84rfnw6yjmg5kyttuplwpauv43a9ug3cajztx4g0v48eqhtt3sh.

mike 1y ago

I probably can’t help much directly, but if you want me to put you in contact with Julian Chapman or his company, I’d be happy to.

His braille knowledge dates back to the 1980’s, so may be a little rusty, but may give some insights, we had a product and we had started selling it through the

https://www.rnib.org.uk/

If you need any parts, I’m sure he could help, he has offices in the UK, South Carolina and Yokohama, Japan.

https://www.geeplus.com/

I’ve just tried to google him, but he really has no Internet presence, but I can link you through WhatsApp. I just checked LinkedIn, he doesn’t even have a profile there!

He's very much a nuts and bolts guy 😂

I look forward to the day where I've collected up my bitcoin frens and family and go strict nuts and bolts myself and spend less time on this thing. I wouldn't bother him now, I dont have a damn clue what Im doing but with people like nostr:npub1q6ya7kz84rfnw6yjmg5kyttuplwpauv43a9ug3cajztx4g0v48eqhtt3sh around, maybe we can get the conversation going?!

mike 1y ago

Of course. Message me if you want to connect in the future.

He's a nice guy and would be happy to help, he's firm is pretty successful and he adopted the Densitron philosophy of entrepreneurship and looking at opportunities.

That's a beautiful thing, thank you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3HgWT_Ya9E

Welp...

Why make something when it already exist?

Of course, this doesn't seem to be open-source and it is super reliant on windows, which I find gross, but might be the way to go since it does have a lot of accessibility features. I don't know how well this would work on Linux.

But a part of me feels like this is progress of a sort.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fIg4rI4cDw

WTF! This is cool! No idea if it's in use.

Ok this is damn cool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXi1tG78AW4

Got it!

This is it. This is how we can build a system. Almost all the work is done. The hard part is the connectivity with software.

Ok, and there is no way this guy isn't a bitcoiner, am I right? I've gotten zero fiat work done this morning because this has me so fuckin' excited.

Eh, hardly anyone is a bitcoiner. 😅

Ive actually got to whack at this fiat mine now finally, but Beave, maybe we can get in a spaces and talk about how to move this project forward sometime. It'd be fun to learn but I'd also work on fundraising and contributing myself. Id really like to see this project get in the hands of some vision impaired bitcoiners. nostr:npub15dg963ct3r2mzgpdmnk4xtvyd82en9eq2t0v92fqvyve8jj6pesqleq7gf why do I vaguely remember you posting something about vision impairment? If that's the case, I'd love to hear from you on this

Hey! Sorry for the delay. Though I have spent some time in the low vision community - I am not a braille user. Most of the folks I know are using text to voice not braille.

No worries and thanks! I've been thinking about the security profile of text to voice versus braille but the primary goal of this project is to help visually impaired folks custody in a sovereign and independent way. I'd love to hear from more folks from that community whenever possible if they come across your path.

When I first set up my HWW I had to have someone sit and do it with me. I’m going to check out the links you guys were passing back and forward - the space is lacking in adaptive technology.

🫡 🫂

phil 1y ago

Interesting discussion. While I’m not part of the low vision community myself, I know a few people that are. One of them has been involved with a project developing the open source NVDA screen reader software. It’s Windows based but last I heard it was pretty capable and a good alternative to the commercial options like JAWS. NVDA also seems to support refreshable braille displays. Being open source it might be an easier option to get it working well with HWW software.

https://www.nvaccess.org

Oh interesting! I use to use JAWS - will have a look at this!

nostr:npub1pzmcx6c5z77r6zf9rf7xlj3kp9mt8wk29snuphdzu7ezzl97kqrsacns7v was digging around in this a bit too.

I'm going to ahve to mute translator bot, lol. I hate that I am so ignorant to electronics/programming because I want to work on this right now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gTdf-KXSwc

This is nearly exactly what I was thinking of, but it's not as slick as the other one:

bookmarking all these examples