"The big drawback to refreshable braille devices has always been their cost. The loose rule of estimation [.] has translated into something like $100 to $150 per braille cell"
According to Vijay Varada the cost of their braille cell is less than 1$
Just a little late-night day-before-Supercon making. Coasters, because I think some people could use a daily reminder of this on their desk, and because you and your presence in tech matters to me. At Alpenglow Industries, we give the very classiest of fucks.
I also made the "readable" schedule again, some event names and titles do collide though. (not my problem, find shorter titles :P) hope I got everything right. https://supercon.davedarko.com/berlin24.php
Briefly back onto the Farnsworths. Finished both cases, but one of the displays died, and the replacement sent was wrong. So waiting (again) to get the second one running.
Moved the Strowger script and the test card script onto an Internet facing server. Currently, I can only try the test card and remote loop back.
So for Berlin and last years supercon I took the fancy looking schedule and tried to make it more readable and to make my FOMO worse, I checked how my latest version would handle the supercon schedule. Seems like its very useable - I think I will (re)move the lunch column manually. Let me know what you think.
I'm seeing an interesting trend between #hackaday#supercon and #shmoocon. When called out on their disgracefully gross single tone white cis male speaker lineups, they each responded with "we tried reaching out to other types of people (let me guess, a few white women), and they refused us".
This seems to clear their conscience and resolve it for them.
ahem YOU HAVE NOT MADE AN ENVIRONMENT GOOD FOLKS WANT TO PARTICIPATE IN.
Fellow nerds 🤓 If you're going to @hackaday Supercon next weekend and you're interested in automating selling/shipping/fulfilling orders for shops like tindie@hackaday.social , Etsy, @lectronz , and @shopify , come check out my talk Saturday morning at 11:00am in the DesignLab https://hackaday.io/superconference/ #hackaday
Here's a direct link to the #hackaday#supercon badge hacking demo I did, but it's worth watching the whole video to see all the amazing projects people came up with.