[Icon-tech] Braille plus used to operate verbalmarine equipment?

[Scott Ford]

Hi,
	I am not a developer, however I was wondering how difficult it would
be to build applications for marine equipment.  I am a diver and there many
dive computers that use Bluetooth connections to obtain their telemetry from
the tanks.  Is this something that could be created for the BP since it has
Bluetooth?  I am also a sailor and their flux gate cumpussas that have a
serial output on them.  There is a marine standard in fact for the
information to be output to things such as a plotter.  Could an application
be developed for the BP to verbally output this information?  Thanks
Cheers
Scott

-----Original Message-----
From: icon-tech-bounces at mulcahy.ws [mailto:icon-tech-bounces at mulcahy.ws] On
Behalf Of Nick Gawronski
Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 5:04 PM
To: Icon technical discussions.
Subject: Re: [Icon-tech] Icon/Braille + Development

Hi, Personally I would include it in the main program rather then as a 
downloadible package.  The reason being that if it were included as part of 
the system more users might wish to develope on the device as they would not

be discouraged if they don't have a computer at hand to develope with. 
Having development tools on the device would also be nice so if a user 
wanted to debug their programs they could do so with out needing to download

any other tools they would already have what they needed and they could also

show users who don't have the device how development is done and how easy it

is as a computer would not be needed for any of the tasks.  It would also be

useful for those people who want to be programmers they could learn directly

on their devices.  I am all for inclution in the development into the main 
firmware of the device and sure others can say other greate things like 
this.  Is this development package anywhere we can try it out?  Some of 
those games don't work on the device I was able to get hangman and blackjack

which I think should be included in the firmware as well but not the other 
ones.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael McDonald" <mmcdonald at aph.org>
To: "Icon technical discussions." <icon-tech at mulcahy.ws>
Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 12:35 PM
Subject: [Icon-tech] Icon/Braille + Development


> Here is some information for those interested in developing for the 
> Icon/Braille +.
>
> First off we have Developer and application that allows python apps to be 
> written right on the unit.  It has some cool features like creating 
> skeleton projects, running apps, debug logs, a simple editor, package 
> builder and more.  I'm not sure if this will be part of the build or a 
> downloadable package, but this should be ready soon.  The more interest in

> it, the more we will put work into it.
>
> Development documentation is rather limited right now, but if more people 
> start to develop for it, we will spend more time on the docs and getting 
> people up to speed.
>
> Right now developer only has one sample app being Hangman, but there are 
> plans to add more.  There are also a few projects on the website that have

> source code, such as Sudoku, but I'll have to find the links for them and 
> they may not even run any more.
>
> This mailing list is the main place to go for anyone interested in 
> developing for the Icon/Braille +.  There are several developers that read

> the list and we will help as time allows.
>
> C/C++ development is possible, but it is quite a bit trickier and while we

> have discussed how to allow users to build for the platform, we haven't 
> worked out the details.
>
> Mike
>
>
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