Hello. I am completely blind and can't see anything. Is it possible to use arduino ide and arduino without sight?
Thanks
maxi1999:
Hello. I am completely blind and can't see anything. Is it possible to use arduino ide and arduino without sight?
Thanks
All depends on when you lost your sight.
My college math/physics prof lost his sight at age 15 due to illness. He already knew how to drive vehicles on parents Montana wheat ranch. He was a ham radio operator and before solid state, repaired his equipment and soldered using a solder gun. He could not drive on public roads, but bought a boat and with a sighted person, roamed most of the Portland Oregon area rivers.
He could not read schematics, but with careful descriptions, could visualize them.
With today's computer screen readers and a good memory, you should do ok. Have someone sighted mark pin 1 on your devices. You will have no end of trouble with color coded wires!
There are all kinds of meters and other test equipment with voice output. Your support network will have access to all that kind of stuff.
Any sighted friends available to help?
Paul
Hi,
Starting simple: If you can connect a small buzzer to a output pin, you have SOME output. Do you know Morse code? I know quite a few blind people send and receive morse.
And there are good text-to-speech modules like this:
I have one of those modules connected to a speaker in the kitchen. I can lie in bed in the dark with my eyes closed and control and monitor quite a few things, get the inside/outside temperatures etc. A single pushbutton in (Morse code) and Text-to-speech out.
Of course I am sighted and was able to read a lot and write code and run wires.
Let us know what you think and what you end up trying...