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Can someone else use their pen friend to read my sticker labels? (self.Blind)
submitted by RollForParadise
I’m going to participate in a blind group secret Santa gift exchange! And I was wondering if I put stickers on each gift and record a little message explaining what each item is, could the gift receiver use their pen friend to read my labels? or can only my pen read my stickers, and it’s blank for other users?
thought this would be a neat little idea! Especially if I have a little jar of homemade hot chocolate mixture, a bag of cookies or a gift card, that way if they have no vision at all it is still completely accessible! :)
I really love Christmas! And I hope to share some of that personal sparkle with a Santa buddy this year.
thought this would be a neat little idea! Especially if I have a little jar of homemade hot chocolate mixture, a bag of cookies or a gift card, that way if they have no vision at all it is still completely accessible! :)
I really love Christmas! And I hope to share some of that personal sparkle with a Santa buddy this year.
TwoSunsRise 4 points 1y ago
No they can't. The pens are programmed for specific labels. They would need to use your pen to read the labels you provide.
RollForParadise [OP] 3 points 1y ago
Hmm, Would you happen to know a way to make QR codes? I could post a video to YouTube explaining what is in the box and stick the code inside. Have you heard of anyone playing around with this idea?
retrolental_morose 2 points 1y ago
QR codes are easily generated online. an iOS or android camera is generally required to read them, and of course a blind person needs to know they're there.
I hand out Braille literature with a braille "box", a centimetre or so wide on the bottom of a sheet, with a QR code in, such that my readers can scan for more detail.
I hand out Braille literature with a braille "box", a centimetre or so wide on the bottom of a sheet, with a QR code in, such that my readers can scan for more detail.
TwoSunsRise 1 points 1y ago
I don't so the other persons comment is probably more helpful
retrolental_morose 2 points 1y ago
you can actually get brilliant sound quality out of a penfriend by recording draft labels, then replacing the files on the pen with your own files, edited to a hier standard.
Or dump the same files onto any number of penfriends for the same responses to the same stickers; I've done this for local attractions.
Expensive to the companies hosting, though.
Or dump the same files onto any number of penfriends for the same responses to the same stickers; I've done this for local attractions.
Expensive to the companies hosting, though.
TwoSunsRise 2 points 1y ago
I would have no idea where to even begin doing that lol
astrolurus 1 points 1y ago
Maybe use NFC tags if they have smartphones? Doesn’t take as much precision as a QR code to hit and still pretty cheap, there’s a slight learning curve with figuring how to write them though
Shadowwynd 1 points 1y ago
A penfriend and the talking label wand work the same way - the label has an encoded number, and you teach/record *YOUR* unit that #2 = "Green beans" or whatever. However, someone else's PenFriend / Label wand may have been told that #2 = "Cream of Chicken". Thus you can't ordinarily swap between multiple wands.
At an organizational level, I know that the Talking Label Wand (don't know about PenFriend) has a removable microSD card where it stores all the recordings. You can duplicate this using a computer - like any other files - so if you own five Talking Label Wands, you can record everything on one, then copy it to the other four so that they would all be identical and would work with the same labels without having to record everything manually five times.
At an organizational level, I know that the Talking Label Wand (don't know about PenFriend) has a removable microSD card where it stores all the recordings. You can duplicate this using a computer - like any other files - so if you own five Talking Label Wands, you can record everything on one, then copy it to the other four so that they would all be identical and would work with the same labels without having to record everything manually five times.
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