[sdiy] Colour-Blindness and Level meters

[gino wong]

Yes it was a version of that that I didlled until it worked.  I should
have been more orgasnised, but the wife wanted results.

For levels I have seen everything but a pieze set to beep at peak and
drone on one overload is just right for most applications.

On 3/9/07, Loscha <loscha at gmail.com> wrote:
> Gino,
>
> Was this part of the Kentucky LCD Project?
> http://blind.ky.gov/lcdinfo.asp
>
>  They have the schematics to hook up many things (Including  a QY10,
> but, I'm sure it could be adapted for many other pieces of gear)
>
> I thought that maybe you could do LED Level meters for vision impared
> using a flashing LED, faster flashing, the higher the peak level.
> Wouldn't be super accurate, but, when the color went solid and stopped
> flashing, you would have reached clipping?
>
>  Props.
>
> On 3/10/07, gino wong <wonggster at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have to dig it up but I have a article on such things.  Long ago I
> > installed a uart that intercepted the lcd messages for my wife's synth
> > display and read it out thru a simple speech synth. It was like a
> > piezo, way simple no software , perfect paul or any of that.  You just
> > grabwhat is going to the disply and interpret that as simple text to
> > speech or enlarged display or what have you.
> >
> > On 3/8/07, Charles Bisaillon <sdiy at oveloe.com> wrote:
> > > Le 3/8/07 3:09 PM, «Edward King» <edwardcking2001 at yahoo.co.uk> a écrit:
> > >
> > > > Thanks for the feedback and suggestions.
> > > >
> > > > As far as a solution goes, I'll make a suggestion in the documentation that
> > > > anyone who has issues with coloured LED type level display should write the
> > > > level / percentage number next to each one.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > >
> > > > EK
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > Or a better solution would be to have a LED that changes between blue and
> > > any other common color (green, yellow, red). I bet we can all see the
> > > change, I know I would have no problems at all. The blue LEDs have such an
> > > intense 'blue'.
> > >
> > > Charles
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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