Braille access to iPaq! (fwd)

Braille access to iPaq! (fwd)

[Nicolas Pitre]

Stéphane is not subscribed to blinux-list so I forward this upon him.

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Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 23:10:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: Stéphane Doyon <s.doyon@videotron.ca>
To: ipaq@handhelds.org, wear-hard@haven.org
Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nico@CAM.ORG>
Subject: Braille access to iPaq!

I have Braille access to my iPaq! Just thought I'd announce my success,
because I find it cool!

We (Nicolas Pitre and myself) have successfully ported BRLTTY to the iPaq
and tested the setup by interfacing with a BrailleLite 18 through the
serial port.

BRLTTY is a program that allows access to the Linux text-mode console
using various brands of Braille displays.

The BrailleLite is a small electronic Braille notetaker device which can
act as a small refreshable Braille display. It also has keys so I can not
only read but also type.

So there's just the iPaq and the BrailleLite device (with a horrible
cable in between) and that's all I need to fully use the console on
the iPaq (in text-mode). A pretty powerful setup, yet very small.

At the Ottawa Linux Symposium in July, using a network card in my iPaq
and borrowing the internet connection they supplied, I was actually able
to logon to the net and go read my E-mail, using ssh, pine and lynx!

It should be possible to duplicate this setup with other Braille display
models or other PDAs.

-- 
Stéphane Doyon
<s.doyon@videotron.ca>
http://pages.infinit.net/sdoyon/

Re: Braille access to iPaq! (fwd)

[Andor Demarteau]

On Sat, 8 Sep 2001, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
 > I have Braille access to my iPaq! Just thought I'd announce my success,
 > because I find it cool!
question:
1. what's an Ipaq
2. what are it's features?
3. what would this setup cost totally


 > We (Nicolas Pitre and myself) have successfully ported BRLTTY to the iPaq
 > and tested the setup by interfacing with a BrailleLite 18 through the
 > serial port.
 > 
 > BRLTTY is a program that allows access to the Linux text-mode console
 > using various brands of Braille displays.
 > 
 > The BrailleLite is a small electronic Braille notetaker device which can
 > act as a small refreshable Braille display. It also has keys so I can not
 > only read but also type.
 > 
 > So there's just the iPaq and the BrailleLite device (with a horrible
 > cable in between) and that's all I need to fully use the console on
 > the iPaq (in text-mode). A pretty powerful setup, yet very small.
 > 
 > At the Ottawa Linux Symposium in July, using a network card in my iPaq
 > and borrowing the internet connection they supplied, I was actually able
 > to logon to the net and go read my E-mail, using ssh, pine and lynx!
 > 
 > It should be possible to duplicate this setup with other Braille display
 > models or other PDAs.
 > 
 > -- 
 > Stéphane Doyon
 > <s.doyon@videotron.ca>
 > http://pages.infinit.net/sdoyon/
 > 
 > 
 > 
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Re: Braille access to iPaq! (fwd)

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Sat, 8 Sep 2001, Andor Demarteau wrote:

> On Sat, 8 Sep 2001, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
>  > I have Braille access to my iPaq! Just thought I'd announce my success,
>  > because I find it cool!
> question:
> 1. what's an Ipaq
> 2. what are it's features?

See http://www.compaq.com/products/handhelds/pocketpc/.

For Linux support, see http://www.handhelds.org.

> 3. what would this setup cost totally

I'll let you do the math.


Nicolas