Jason White <ja...@jasonjgw.net> writes: > Cheryl Homiak <cah4...@icloud.com> wrote: >> That is really neat! > > Indeed it is. It's probably more capable than some of the braille note taking > devices available commercially, especially the braille displays that serve > secondarily as text editors/note takers.
It contains a full-fledged Linux. I wouldn't try to run GNOME on it, but as long as you stay on the console, you can probably almost run anything you want. I just had a (working) USB Audio card connected to the rpi and to the internal 3.5mm audio jack of the Active Star and was able to play MP3 and FLAC files with about 15% CPU load by mpv. So even audio should be feasable. It should also be able to run espeak or similar. It is running "apt dist-upgrade" right now, btw, just to emphasis that it is really a full-fledged Linux (Raspbian, Debian based) distribution. It runs a 4.4 kernel. After a bit of tinkering, it now seems to boot in about 23 seconds, which is acceptable I think. -- CYa, ⡍⠁⠗⠊⠕ _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: BRLTTY@mielke.cc For general information, go to: http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty
