While making my fidget spinner projects I like to watch videos about fidget toys worldwide and how people use them.I was very impressed by the following video from Youtube:
It looks that existing fidget spinners are not very interesting for blind people as they do not feel spinner's rotation.
Hearing does not help much as the bearing inside spinner gives limited sound.
Sense of touch does not add much also, because any touch will stop the spinner .
My current project was for people with normal sight.
While arduino coding is not a big problem, making several hundreds of small mp3 files with audio comments is a very time consuming job. I guess I need a couple of months to make an audio files.
Every rotation of the spinner will be marked with one short beep sound and every action will be explained by voice .
To be continued......
January 1st 2025
Today I have fixed major bugs and my prototype is able to create sounds now.
Here is a link to a short audio file. Close your eyes and feel like blind user .
Some comments :
- short single beep is created for every rotation of te fidget spinner;
double beep is created after spinner stopped.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MXoWPCkD4rMi2uzAui8id08Ti1TbuLa2/view?usp=sharing
It will be cool to find a company(for licensing) that already manufactures talking toys .
As Google says there are over 1 million blind people in USA and more than 43 million worldwide.
I hope my project can add some fun to the life of blind people.
