[gps-talkusers] Re: The mini guide

  • From: "Scott Granados" <gsgranados@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:41:44 -0700

I guess thinking about it I've used environmental sounds to accomplish that in the past. I've always had a good bead on locating objects by ear but in high noise situations this would be really nice. I like the idea of pinging the person in front of me in line.:)
----- Original Message ----- From: "Steven Bingham" <steven.bingham1@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 
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Sent: Friday, June 13, 2008 5:06 PM
Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: The mini guide
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> 
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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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