[gps-talkusers] Re: The mini guide
- From: "Steven Bingham" <steven.bingham1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 01:06:05 +0100
The beauty of the mini guide is that you can easily whip it out of a pocket
and turn it on when you need to locate something like a traffic signal post
or a letter box. This is particularly useful in strange areas where the dog
might not know what to look for.
Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex Hall" <mehgcap@xxxxxxx>
To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, June 13, 2008 2:21 PM
Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: The mini guide
I have seen something like that, but for some reason the handheld
type seems to have taken off. I have heard of ones you can mount
to canes, but you could never let the cane rotate and that would
be kind of strange when tapping along; the cane would move too
fast for the computer to take in what the beam is "seeing". I am
not sure how those work.
Have a great day,
Alex
> ----- Original Message -----
>From: "Scott Granados" <gsgranados@xxxxxxxxxxx
>To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Date sent: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 06:05:45 -0700
>Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: The mini guide
>I wish you could mount that on glasses! Have them either vibrate
or beep in
>your ear. Leave the hands out of it!
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Alex Hall" <mehgcap@xxxxxxx
>To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 6:44 PM
>Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: The mini guide
>> Question: how can you operate a cane/dog, gps/bn, and mini guide
all at
>> the same time? I had a hard enough time with just the cane and
mini guide,
>> but I was amazed when I had an opportunity to use the mini guide
(a device
>> like it anyway). I avoided countless collisions with people in
a very
>> crowded school that my cane would not have picked up because of
how short
>> I have to hold the cane in those crowds. I have just not had
the money to
>> get a mini guide, plus I have found my cane to be quite
sufficient...
>> until I run into something (figuratively and literally) where I
realize
>> that one of those magic Milky Way bars (as another poster put
it) would
>> have been quite handy.
>> Also, for those interested, the device sends out an ultrasonic
beam from
>> one of the two front ports. The other port senses the
reflection of that
>> beam and sends the strength of the reflection to a processor
which tells
>> the vibrating motor how fast to go (in my case it used pulses;
the closer
>> together the pulses were, the closer the object).
>> Have a great day,
>> Alex
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>From: Wendy Slominsky <wendyslominsky@xxxxxxxxxxx
>>>To: "gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>Date sent: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:57:52 -0400
>>>Subject: [gps-talkusers] The mini guide
>>>This is what I use as well. The GPS can only be as accurate as
>> is
>>>humanly possible and it will not help you find anything that
>>>specifically. The mini guide has saved me many times trying to
>> find
>>>poles, benches etc.
>>>It's thankfully not too expensive. www.senderogroup.com
>>>Good luck!
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