Humble Suggestion: Parallax should produce Tacit
localroger
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Tacit is a hack product made from two Parallax Ping))) sensors, an Arduino, and a couple of microservos, kind of a much better than a cane handheld sonar for the blind:
http://grathio.com/2011/08/meet-the-tacit-project-its-sonar-for-the-blind/
The Tacit is way overpriced due to the use of the Arduino and the labor involved assembling the PINGs and whatever microcontroller one might use. I think Parallax could make a single board version of the electronics for this thing cheaply. Like about half. And this would be a very good thing.
Because, of course, we know Parallax has extra people lolling around with nothing to do I KID I KID but really, suggesting that people buy an Arduino if they want to have one of these things, that just seems wrong.
http://grathio.com/2011/08/meet-the-tacit-project-its-sonar-for-the-blind/
The Tacit is way overpriced due to the use of the Arduino and the labor involved assembling the PINGs and whatever microcontroller one might use. I think Parallax could make a single board version of the electronics for this thing cheaply. Like about half. And this would be a very good thing.
Because, of course, we know Parallax has extra people lolling around with nothing to do I KID I KID but really, suggesting that people buy an Arduino if they want to have one of these things, that just seems wrong.
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-Phil