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- Newsgroups: comp.robotics
- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!wingnut!petesk
- From: petesk@microsoft.com (Pete Skelly)
- Subject: Re: micro-plungers
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.042556.6485@microsoft.com>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 04:25:56 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <kkoehn.711581003@sfu.ca> <1992Jul20.191047.24832@sei.cmu.edu>
- Keywords: blind Braille compressed robots
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- >In article <kkoehn.711581003@sfu.ca> kkoehn@fraser.sfu.ca (Kaari David Koehn) writes:
- >>For a possible challenge project, I'm thinking of a
- >>display device for the blind.
- >>Don't laugh: my concept is a grid of small plungers that can be
- >>raised and lowered via computer control to show readable braille.
- >>
- >
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- You may want to try using vibrating pins. I believe this has
- been used successfuly in some systems already, but expanding
- this field would be hightly useful. I believe that the sense
- of touch responds quite well to vibrations.
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- petesk@microsoft.com
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