Macaron wins the Australian Dyson award

[Yuma Decaux]

Hi everyone,

Yuma from oseyeris here. Before I head off to see 5 astrophysics phds from my 
uni to discuss everything about space, stars galaxies and of course, Astreos, I 
wanted to give y'all a heads-up on something else.

As we are a hardware/software for (currently for mac/IOS) crew that tackles all 
sorts of things that tends to complicate our lives as blind individuals who 
either have active lifestyles, go to uni, want to create or do things sighted 
people do, we have been awarded the prestigious Dyson award for the national 
competition in Australia for our Macaron, the universal access smart tape 
measure.

i wish I could send everyone a unit so you can feel it in your hands, play with 
the magnets that attach things together and make the process of measuring an 
amazing one, play with the app, etc. And I wish you could compare it with some 
previous prototypes we worked on just to see how cool it is now, but for the 
moment I invite you to have a read at the process and the journey in getting 
there. link is below:

https://www.oseyeris.com/post/macaron-wins-australian-national-james-dyson-award-led-by-qut-and-uq-students
 


We're being featured everywhere here down South, here are some links:

https://www.itwire.com/development/84333-james-dyson-award-s-australian-winner-measures-up-successfully,-as-do-two-great-runners-up.html
 


https://newatlas.com/macaron-measuring-tape/56213/ 



And here's a radio appearance during rush hour from 4RBC:

https://www.4bc.com.au/podcast/qut-team-wins-james-dyson-award/ 


Just wanted to share the excitement we have within our team for this, and I 
would like to invite you to Like our Facebook page below to keep up with what 
we have coming through, including an "efficiently accessible" Trello desktop 
app, more 3D tutorial podcasts with a better format, a free music sampling and 
mixing tool, and much more.

https://www.facebook.com/OSeyerisVIP/ 


Keep your ears peeled for the next update of Astreos due within days.

Have a great day y'all 



-- 
The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list.

If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you 
feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or 
moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself.

Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor.  Mark can be reached at:  
mk...@ucla.edu.  Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at 
caraqu...@caraquinn.com

The archives for this list can be searched at:
http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/
--- 
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups 
"VIPhone" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email 
to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.
To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com.
Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

RE: Macaron wins the Australian Dyson award

[Carolyn Arnold]

Congratulations!!!

Best regards,

Carolyn 


-Original Message-
From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of 
Yuma Decaux
Sent: Wednesday, September 5, 2018 2:41 PM
To: macvisionar...@googlegroups.com
Cc: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Macaron wins the Australian Dyson award

Hi everyone,

Yuma from oseyeris here. Before I head off to see 5 astrophysics phds from my 
uni to discuss everything about space, stars galaxies and of course, Astreos, I 
wanted to give y'all a heads-up on something else.

As we are a hardware/software for (currently for mac/IOS) crew that tackles all 
sorts of things that tends to complicate our lives as blind individuals who 
either have active lifestyles, go to uni, want to create or do things sighted 
people do, we have been awarded the prestigious Dyson award for the national 
competition in Australia for our Macaron, the universal access smart tape 
measure.

i wish I could send everyone a unit so you can feel it in your hands, play with 
the magnets that attach things together and make the process of measuring an 
amazing one, play with the app, etc. And I wish you could compare it with some 
previous prototypes we worked on just to see how cool it is now, but for the 
moment I invite you to have a read at the process and the journey in getting 
there. link is below:

https://www.oseyeris.com/post/macaron-wins-australian-national-james-dyson-award-led-by-qut-and-uq-students

We're being featured everywhere here down South, here are some links:

https://www.itwire.com/development/84333-james-dyson-award-s-australian-winner-measures-up-successfully,-as-do-two-great-runners-up.html

https://newatlas.com/macaron-measuring-tape/56213/


And here's a radio appearance during rush hour from 4RBC:

https://www.4bc.com.au/podcast/qut-team-wins-james-dyson-award/

Just wanted to share the excitement we have within our team for this, and I 
would like to invite you to Like our Facebook page below to keep up with what 
we have coming through, including an "efficiently accessible" Trello desktop 
app, more 3D tutorial podcasts with a better format, a free music sampling and 
mixing tool, and much more.

https://www.facebook.com/OSeyerisVIP/


Keep your ears peeled for the next update of Astreos due within days.

Have a great day y'all 




-- 
The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list.
 
If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you 
feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or 
moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself.
 
Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: 
mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at 
caraqu...@caraquinn.com
 
The archives for this list can be searched at:
http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/
--- 
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups 
"VIPhone" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email 
to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com 
<mailto:viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com> .
To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com 
<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> .
Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.


-- 
The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list.

If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you 
feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or 
moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself.

Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor.  Mark can be reached at:  
mk...@ucla.edu.  Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at 
caraqu...@caraquinn.com

The archives for this list can be searched at:
http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/
--- 
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups 
"VIPhone" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email 
to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.
To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com.
Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

Re: Macaron wins the Australian Dyson award

['Maria Reyes' via VIPhone]

Wow that is so cool! congrats!! Do you talk about your app?

> On Sep 5, 2018, at 2:46 PM, Carolyn Arnold <4carol...@windstream.net> wrote:
> 
> Congratulations!!!
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Carolyn 
> 
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of 
> Yuma Decaux
> Sent: Wednesday, September 5, 2018 2:41 PM
> To: macvisionar...@googlegroups.com
> Cc: viphone@googlegroups.com
> Subject: Macaron wins the Australian Dyson award
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Yuma from oseyeris here. Before I head off to see 5 astrophysics phds from my 
> uni to discuss everything about space, stars galaxies and of course, Astreos, 
> I wanted to give y'all a heads-up on something else.
> 
> As we are a hardware/software for (currently for mac/IOS) crew that tackles 
> all sorts of things that tends to complicate our lives as blind individuals 
> who either have active lifestyles, go to uni, want to create or do things 
> sighted people do, we have been awarded the prestigious Dyson award for the 
> national competition in Australia for our Macaron, the universal access smart 
> tape measure.
> 
> i wish I could send everyone a unit so you can feel it in your hands, play 
> with the magnets that attach things together and make the process of 
> measuring an amazing one, play with the app, etc. And I wish you could 
> compare it with some previous prototypes we worked on just to see how cool it 
> is now, but for the moment I invite you to have a read at the process and the 
> journey in getting there. link is below:
> 
> https://www.oseyeris.com/post/macaron-wins-australian-national-james-dyson-award-led-by-qut-and-uq-students
> 
> We're being featured everywhere here down South, here are some links:
> 
> https://www.itwire.com/development/84333-james-dyson-award-s-australian-winner-measures-up-successfully,-as-do-two-great-runners-up.html
> 
> https://newatlas.com/macaron-measuring-tape/56213/
> 
> 
> And here's a radio appearance during rush hour from 4RBC:
> 
> https://www.4bc.com.au/podcast/qut-team-wins-james-dyson-award/
> 
> Just wanted to share the excitement we have within our team for this, and I 
> would like to invite you to Like our Facebook page below to keep up with what 
> we have coming through, including an "efficiently accessible" Trello desktop 
> app, more 3D tutorial podcasts with a better format, a free music sampling 
> and mixing tool, and much more.
> 
> https://www.facebook.com/OSeyerisVIP/
> 
> 
> Keep your ears peeled for the next update of Astreos due within days.
> 
> Have a great day y'all 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list.
> 
> If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if 
> you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or 
> moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself.
> 
> Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: 
> mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at 
> caraqu...@caraquinn.com
> 
> The archives for this list can be searched at:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/
> --- 
> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups 
> "VIPhone" group.
> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an 
> email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com 
> <mailto:viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com> .
> To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com 
> <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> .
> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone.
> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
> 
> 
> -- 
> The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list.
> 
> If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if 
> you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or 
> moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself.
> 
> Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor.  Mark can be reached at:  
> mk...@ucla.edu.  Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at 
> caraqu...@caraquinn.com
> 
> The archives for this list can be searched at:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/
> --- 
> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups 
> "VIPhone" group.
> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an 
> email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.
> To post to this group, send email to viphone

RE: Macaron wins the Australian Dyson award

[Sieghard Weitzel]

Is this a talking tape measure? Sorry, I didn’t have time yet to look at any of 
the links, but I’m a woodworker and always on the lookout for cool devices 
especially if they allow me to measure accurately down to the millimeter or 
when it comes to the imperial system at least to the sixteenth of an inch, down 
to 1/32 would be even better.

Regards,
Sieghard

From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Yuma 
Decaux
Sent: Wednesday, September 5, 2018 11:41 AM
To: macvisionar...@googlegroups.com
Cc: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Macaron wins the Australian Dyson award

Hi everyone,

Yuma from oseyeris here. Before I head off to see 5 astrophysics phds from my 
uni to discuss everything about space, stars galaxies and of course, Astreos, I 
wanted to give y'all a heads-up on something else.

As we are a hardware/software for (currently for mac/IOS) crew that tackles all 
sorts of things that tends to complicate our lives as blind individuals who 
either have active lifestyles, go to uni, want to create or do things sighted 
people do, we have been awarded the prestigious Dyson award for the national 
competition in Australia for our Macaron, the universal access smart tape 
measure.

i wish I could send everyone a unit so you can feel it in your hands, play with 
the magnets that attach things together and make the process of measuring an 
amazing one, play with the app, etc. And I wish you could compare it with some 
previous prototypes we worked on just to see how cool it is now, but for the 
moment I invite you to have a read at the process and the journey in getting 
there. link is below:

https://www.oseyeris.com/post/macaron-wins-australian-national-james-dyson-award-led-by-qut-and-uq-students

We're being featured everywhere here down South, here are some links:

https://www.itwire.com/development/84333-james-dyson-award-s-australian-winner-measures-up-successfully,-as-do-two-great-runners-up.html

https://newatlas.com/macaron-measuring-tape/56213/


And here's a radio appearance during rush hour from 4RBC:

https://www.4bc.com.au/podcast/qut-team-wins-james-dyson-award/

Just wanted to share the excitement we have within our team for this, and I 
would like to invite you to Like our Facebook page below to keep up with what 
we have coming through, including an "efficiently accessible" Trello desktop 
app, more 3D tutorial podcasts with a better format, a free music sampling and 
mixing tool, and much more.

https://www.facebook.com/OSeyerisVIP/


Keep your ears peeled for the next update of Astreos due within days.

Have a great day y'all



--
The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list.

If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you 
feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or 
moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself.

Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: 
mk...@ucla.edu<mailto:mk...@ucla.edu>. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can 
reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com<mailto:caraqu...@caraquinn.com>

The archives for this list can be searched at:
http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/
---
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups 
"VIPhone" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email 
to 
viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>.
To post to this group, send email to 
viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>.
Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

-- 
The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list.

If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you 
feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or 
moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself.

Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor.  Mark can be reached at:  
mk...@ucla.edu.  Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at 
caraqu...@caraquinn.com

The archives for this list can be searched at:
http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/
--- 
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups 
"VIPhone" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email 
to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.
To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com.
Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

Re: Macaron wins the Australian Dyson award

[Yuma Decaux]

Hi Sieghard,

Yes, it's the smart tape measure. We've so far increased the precision so worse 
case offset is within 1 mm. We're currently looking for higher resolution 
machines to CNC the internals, and adding some machine learning to fit 
individual tolerances for each unit so that we can increase accuracy over time 
to sub milllimeter precision. This will require sending data from the hardware 
to the app to our server on specific states, such as when idle or putting the 
app into background mode. The empirical to metric conversions are already there 
to 1/16th of an inch. 1/32 is something we are setting as a goal for the sake 
of being cool, but most of the initial testers have not expressed the necessity 
to do so. Can you give me some scenarios where .78 mm is required?

A++







> On 6 Sep 2018, at 1:28 pm, Sieghard Weitzel  wrote:
> 
> Is this a talking tape measure? Sorry, I didn’t have time yet to look at any 
> of the links, but I’m a woodworker and always on the lookout for cool devices 
> especially if they allow me to measure accurately down to the millimeter or 
> when it comes to the imperial system at least to the sixteenth of an inch, 
> down to 1/32 would be even better.
>  
> Regards,
> Sieghard
>  
> From: viphone@googlegroups.com 
> <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>> On Behalf Of Yuma Decaux
> Sent: Wednesday, September 5, 2018 11:41 AM
> To: macvisionar...@googlegroups.com <mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com>
> Cc: viphone@googlegroups.com <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>
> Subject: Macaron wins the Australian Dyson award
>  
> Hi everyone,
>  
> Yuma from oseyeris here. Before I head off to see 5 astrophysics phds from my 
> uni to discuss everything about space, stars galaxies and of course, Astreos, 
> I wanted to give y'all a heads-up on something else.
>  
> As we are a hardware/software for (currently for mac/IOS) crew that tackles 
> all sorts of things that tends to complicate our lives as blind individuals 
> who either have active lifestyles, go to uni, want to create or do things 
> sighted people do, we have been awarded the prestigious Dyson award for the 
> national competition in Australia for our Macaron, the universal access smart 
> tape measure.
>  
> i wish I could send everyone a unit so you can feel it in your hands, play 
> with the magnets that attach things together and make the process of 
> measuring an amazing one, play with the app, etc. And I wish you could 
> compare it with some previous prototypes we worked on just to see how cool it 
> is now, but for the moment I invite you to have a read at the process and the 
> journey in getting there. link is below:
>  
> https://www.oseyeris.com/post/macaron-wins-australian-national-james-dyson-award-led-by-qut-and-uq-students
>  
> <https://www.oseyeris.com/post/macaron-wins-australian-national-james-dyson-award-led-by-qut-and-uq-students>
>  
> We're being featured everywhere here down South, here are some links:
>  
> https://www.itwire.com/development/84333-james-dyson-award-s-australian-winner-measures-up-successfully,-as-do-two-great-runners-up.html
>  
> <https://www.itwire.com/development/84333-james-dyson-award-s-australian-winner-measures-up-successfully,-as-do-two-great-runners-up.html>
>  
> https://newatlas.com/macaron-measuring-tape/56213/ 
> <https://newatlas.com/macaron-measuring-tape/56213/>
>  
>  
> And here's a radio appearance during rush hour from 4RBC:
>  
> https://www.4bc.com.au/podcast/qut-team-wins-james-dyson-award/ 
> <https://www.4bc.com.au/podcast/qut-team-wins-james-dyson-award/>
>  
> Just wanted to share the excitement we have within our team for this, and I 
> would like to invite you to Like our Facebook page below to keep up with what 
> we have coming through, including an "efficiently accessible" Trello desktop 
> app, more 3D tutorial podcasts with a better format, a free music sampling 
> and mixing tool, and much more.
>  
> https://www.facebook.com/OSeyerisVIP/ <https://www.facebook.com/OSeyerisVIP/>
>  
>  
> Keep your ears peeled for the next update of Astreos due within days.
>  
> Have a great day y'all 
>  
>  
>  
> -- 
> The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list.
>  
> If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if 
> you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or 
> moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself.
>  
> Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: 
> mk...@ucla.edu <mailto:mk...@ucla.edu>. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - y

RE: Macaron wins the Australian Dyson award

[Sieghard Weitzel]

Hi Yuma,

As I mentioned I do woodworking which means I do anything from carpentry like I 
am currently building a little addition on the side of my house for storage to 
making displays for my retail store to more fine woodworking projects like 
furniture, fancy cutting boards etc.
I have two main measuring devices I use to measure my workpieces and set up my 
machines like table saw, router, drill press etc.:

1. The Clickrule which is a mechanical device that consists of a main unit 
available in metric or imperial, accuracy is to the sixteenth of an inch and to 
the millimeter,, respectively. It is a bit hard to describe, maybe you know it 
already so for now I will leave it at this.
2. The Cobolt talking tape measure from England which can do either imperial or 
metric at the push of a button, accuracy to the millimeter for metric and 
sicteenth of an inch for imperial.

For the most part the sixteenth of an inch accuracy is OK, as you know the 
millimeter accuracy is about half way between that of a 1/16 to that of a 1/32 
so better than 1/16 but not quite 1/32.
In most woodworking projects you can get away with being off by a sixteenth of 
an inch, if you build drawers you don’t want it to be more than that, though, 
and sometimes it’s nice to have that extra accuracy, for example, if I want to 
drill a hole or use a router to route a resess that is of a certain depth etc.

One requirement I and any woodworker has and which is very important is 
ruggedness. The Cobalt talking tape measure is pretty good, it costs I think 
about 55 or 60 british pounds and I am on my second one; things drop or get 
bumped in a woodworking shop so it needs to be able to take an occasional drop 
etc.

Best regards,
Sieghard

From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Yuma 
Decaux
Sent: Wednesday, September 5, 2018 11:18 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Macaron wins the Australian Dyson award

Hi Sieghard,

Yes, it's the smart tape measure. We've so far increased the precision so worse 
case offset is within 1 mm. We're currently looking for higher resolution 
machines to CNC the internals, and adding some machine learning to fit 
individual tolerances for each unit so that we can increase accuracy over time 
to sub milllimeter precision. This will require sending data from the hardware 
to the app to our server on specific states, such as when idle or putting the 
app into background mode. The empirical to metric conversions are already there 
to 1/16th of an inch. 1/32 is something we are setting as a goal for the sake 
of being cool, but most of the initial testers have not expressed the necessity 
to do so. Can you give me some scenarios where .78 mm is required?

A++








On 6 Sep 2018, at 1:28 pm, Sieghard Weitzel 
mailto:siegh...@live.ca>> wrote:

Is this a talking tape measure? Sorry, I didn’t have time yet to look at any of 
the links, but I’m a woodworker and always on the lookout for cool devices 
especially if they allow me to measure accurately down to the millimeter or 
when it comes to the imperial system at least to the sixteenth of an inch, down 
to 1/32 would be even better.

Regards,
Sieghard

From: 
viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>>
 On Behalf Of Yuma Decaux
Sent: Wednesday, September 5, 2018 11:41 AM
To: macvisionar...@googlegroups.com<mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com>
Cc: viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Macaron wins the Australian Dyson award

Hi everyone,

Yuma from oseyeris here. Before I head off to see 5 astrophysics phds from my 
uni to discuss everything about space, stars galaxies and of course, Astreos, I 
wanted to give y'all a heads-up on something else.

As we are a hardware/software for (currently for mac/IOS) crew that tackles all 
sorts of things that tends to complicate our lives as blind individuals who 
either have active lifestyles, go to uni, want to create or do things sighted 
people do, we have been awarded the prestigious Dyson award for the national 
competition in Australia for our Macaron, the universal access smart tape 
measure.

i wish I could send everyone a unit so you can feel it in your hands, play with 
the magnets that attach things together and make the process of measuring an 
amazing one, play with the app, etc. And I wish you could compare it with some 
previous prototypes we worked on just to see how cool it is now, but for the 
moment I invite you to have a read at the process and the journey in getting 
there. link is below:

https://www.oseyeris.com/post/macaron-wins-australian-national-james-dyson-award-led-by-qut-and-uq-students

We're being featured everywhere here down South, here are some links:

https://www.itwire.com/development/84333-james-dyson-award-s-australian-winner-measures-up-successfully,-as-do-two-great-runners-up.html

https://newatlas.com/macaron-measuring-tape/56213

RE: Macaron wins the Australian Dyson award

[Sieghard Weitzel]

Sorry, I should have probably sent that last message to you directly since it’s 
not exactly iPhone related.
Feel free to reply to me directly at siegh...@live.ca<mailto:siegh...@live.ca>.



From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Yuma 
Decaux
Sent: Wednesday, September 5, 2018 11:18 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Macaron wins the Australian Dyson award

Hi Sieghard,

Yes, it's the smart tape measure. We've so far increased the precision so worse 
case offset is within 1 mm. We're currently looking for higher resolution 
machines to CNC the internals, and adding some machine learning to fit 
individual tolerances for each unit so that we can increase accuracy over time 
to sub milllimeter precision. This will require sending data from the hardware 
to the app to our server on specific states, such as when idle or putting the 
app into background mode. The empirical to metric conversions are already there 
to 1/16th of an inch. 1/32 is something we are setting as a goal for the sake 
of being cool, but most of the initial testers have not expressed the necessity 
to do so. Can you give me some scenarios where .78 mm is required?

A++








On 6 Sep 2018, at 1:28 pm, Sieghard Weitzel 
mailto:siegh...@live.ca>> wrote:

Is this a talking tape measure? Sorry, I didn’t have time yet to look at any of 
the links, but I’m a woodworker and always on the lookout for cool devices 
especially if they allow me to measure accurately down to the millimeter or 
when it comes to the imperial system at least to the sixteenth of an inch, down 
to 1/32 would be even better.

Regards,
Sieghard

From: 
viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>>
 On Behalf Of Yuma Decaux
Sent: Wednesday, September 5, 2018 11:41 AM
To: macvisionar...@googlegroups.com<mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com>
Cc: viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Macaron wins the Australian Dyson award

Hi everyone,

Yuma from oseyeris here. Before I head off to see 5 astrophysics phds from my 
uni to discuss everything about space, stars galaxies and of course, Astreos, I 
wanted to give y'all a heads-up on something else.

As we are a hardware/software for (currently for mac/IOS) crew that tackles all 
sorts of things that tends to complicate our lives as blind individuals who 
either have active lifestyles, go to uni, want to create or do things sighted 
people do, we have been awarded the prestigious Dyson award for the national 
competition in Australia for our Macaron, the universal access smart tape 
measure.

i wish I could send everyone a unit so you can feel it in your hands, play with 
the magnets that attach things together and make the process of measuring an 
amazing one, play with the app, etc. And I wish you could compare it with some 
previous prototypes we worked on just to see how cool it is now, but for the 
moment I invite you to have a read at the process and the journey in getting 
there. link is below:

https://www.oseyeris.com/post/macaron-wins-australian-national-james-dyson-award-led-by-qut-and-uq-students

We're being featured everywhere here down South, here are some links:

https://www.itwire.com/development/84333-james-dyson-award-s-australian-winner-measures-up-successfully,-as-do-two-great-runners-up.html

https://newatlas.com/macaron-measuring-tape/56213/


And here's a radio appearance during rush hour from 4RBC:

https://www.4bc.com.au/podcast/qut-team-wins-james-dyson-award/

Just wanted to share the excitement we have within our team for this, and I 
would like to invite you to Like our Facebook page below to keep up with what 
we have coming through, including an "efficiently accessible" Trello desktop 
app, more 3D tutorial podcasts with a better format, a free music sampling and 
mixing tool, and much more.

https://www.facebook.com/OSeyerisVIP/


Keep your ears peeled for the next update of Astreos due within days.

Have a great day y'all



--
The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list.

If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you 
feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or 
moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself.

Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: 
mk...@ucla.edu<mailto:mk...@ucla.edu>. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can 
reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com<mailto:caraqu...@caraquinn.com>

The archives for this list can be searched at:
http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/
---
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups 
"VIPhone" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email 
toviphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>.
To

Re: Macaron wins the Australian Dyson award

[Yuma Decaux]

Hi Sieghard,

Yes, I have been interacting with the local Vision Australia woodwork shop, and 
the manager told me that sub millimeter or 1/32 inch accuracy was not 
necesarrily required but appreciated. However your opinion does incentivise us 
to actually go for the 1/32 holy grail, so I will push it into the dev pipeline.

For the ruggedness, we have been doing drop tests, and adapting the internals 
to take shocks, like slapping the unit across a dining table to crash against a 
wall or droping it from waist height directly onto it's LED face. We've had 
some casualties at the beginning, but are having much better results. We also 
have had several suggestions to add a lead to the unit so people can hang it 
around their necks or clip it to their waist. the unit is very lightweight 
because of its flexible ribbon, unlike the old types of tape measures. We did 
some modifications on being able to clip in several important internal 
components, so that we can fill spaces with various silicone and absorbing 
materials, looked at the casing's internal structure so that we can machine 
aluminum/metallic versions without it suffering dents and bumps, and have 
looked at creating a resin bumper around for those who tend to manhandle their 
devices.

Let's continue this conversation off list, as I would like to ask you a few 
more woodwork related questions.

have a great day 





> On 6 Sep 2018, at 4:33 pm, Sieghard Weitzel  wrote:
> 
> Hi Yuma,
>  
> As I mentioned I do woodworking which means I do anything from carpentry like 
> I am currently building a little addition on the side of my house for storage 
> to making displays for my retail store to more fine woodworking projects like 
> furniture, fancy cutting boards etc.
> I have two main measuring devices I use to measure my workpieces and set up 
> my machines like table saw, router, drill press etc.:
>  
> 1. The Clickrule which is a mechanical device that consists of a main unit 
> available in metric or imperial, accuracy is to the sixteenth of an inch and 
> to the millimeter,, respectively. It is a bit hard to describe, maybe you 
> know it already so for now I will leave it at this.
> 2. The Cobolt talking tape measure from England which can do either imperial 
> or metric at the push of a button, accuracy to the millimeter for metric and 
> sicteenth of an inch for imperial.
>  
> For the most part the sixteenth of an inch accuracy is OK, as you know the 
> millimeter accuracy is about half way between that of a 1/16 to that of a 
> 1/32 so better than 1/16 but not quite 1/32.
> In most woodworking projects you can get away with being off by a sixteenth 
> of an inch, if you build drawers you don’t want it to be more than that, 
> though, and sometimes it’s nice to have that extra accuracy, for example, if 
> I want to drill a hole or use a router to route a resess that is of a certain 
> depth etc.
>  
> One requirement I and any woodworker has and which is very important is 
> ruggedness. The Cobalt talking tape measure is pretty good, it costs I think 
> about 55 or 60 british pounds and I am on my second one; things drop or get 
> bumped in a woodworking shop so it needs to be able to take an occasional 
> drop etc.
>  
> Best regards,
> Sieghard
>  
> From: viphone@googlegroups.com 
> <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>> On Behalf Of Yuma Decaux
> Sent: Wednesday, September 5, 2018 11:18 PM
> To: viphone@googlegroups.com <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>
> Subject: Re: Macaron wins the Australian Dyson award
>  
> Hi Sieghard,
>  
> Yes, it's the smart tape measure. We've so far increased the precision so 
> worse case offset is within 1 mm. We're currently looking for higher 
> resolution machines to CNC the internals, and adding some machine learning to 
> fit individual tolerances for each unit so that we can increase accuracy over 
> time to sub milllimeter precision. This will require sending data from the 
> hardware to the app to our server on specific states, such as when idle or 
> putting the app into background mode. The empirical to metric conversions are 
> already there to 1/16th of an inch. 1/32 is something we are setting as a 
> goal for the sake of being cool, but most of the initial testers have not 
> expressed the necessity to do so. Can you give me some scenarios where .78 mm 
> is required?
>  
> A++
>  
>  
>  
>  
>  
>  
> 
> 
> On 6 Sep 2018, at 1:28 pm, Sieghard Weitzel  <mailto:siegh...@live.ca>> wrote:
>  
> Is this a talking tape measure? Sorry, I didn’t have time yet to look at any 
> of the links, but I’m a woodworker and always on the lookout for cool devices 
> especially if they allow me t

RE: Macaron wins the Australian Dyson award

[Mr. Ed]

What kind of cost are you thinking this device might cost or what price are you 
aiming for?

Mr. Ed

 

From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of 
Sieghard Weitzel
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2018 1:33 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: Macaron wins the Australian Dyson award

 

Hi Yuma,

 

As I mentioned I do woodworking which means I do anything from carpentry like I 
am currently building a little addition on the side of my house for storage to 
making displays for my retail store to more fine woodworking projects like 
furniture, fancy cutting boards etc.

I have two main measuring devices I use to measure my workpieces and set up my 
machines like table saw, router, drill press etc.:

 

1. The Clickrule which is a mechanical device that consists of a main unit 
available in metric or imperial, accuracy is to the sixteenth of an inch and to 
the millimeter,, respectively. It is a bit hard to describe, maybe you know it 
already so for now I will leave it at this.

2. The Cobolt talking tape measure from England which can do either imperial or 
metric at the push of a button, accuracy to the millimeter for metric and 
sicteenth of an inch for imperial.

 

For the most part the sixteenth of an inch accuracy is OK, as you know the 
millimeter accuracy is about half way between that of a 1/16 to that of a 1/32 
so better than 1/16 but not quite 1/32.

In most woodworking projects you can get away with being off by a sixteenth of 
an inch, if you build drawers you don’t want it to be more than that, though, 
and sometimes it’s nice to have that extra accuracy, for example, if I want to 
drill a hole or use a router to route a resess that is of a certain depth etc.

 

One requirement I and any woodworker has and which is very important is 
ruggedness. The Cobalt talking tape measure is pretty good, it costs I think 
about 55 or 60 british pounds and I am on my second one; things drop or get 
bumped in a woodworking shop so it needs to be able to take an occasional drop 
etc.

 

Best regards,

Sieghard

 

From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Yuma 
Decaux
Sent: Wednesday, September 5, 2018 11:18 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Macaron wins the Australian Dyson award

 

Hi Sieghard,

 

Yes, it's the smart tape measure. We've so far increased the precision so worse 
case offset is within 1 mm. We're currently looking for higher resolution 
machines to CNC the internals, and adding some machine learning to fit 
individual tolerances for each unit so that we can increase accuracy over time 
to sub milllimeter precision. This will require sending data from the hardware 
to the app to our server on specific states, such as when idle or putting the 
app into background mode. The empirical to metric conversions are already there 
to 1/16th of an inch. 1/32 is something we are setting as a goal for the sake 
of being cool, but most of the initial testers have not expressed the necessity 
to do so. Can you give me some scenarios where .78 mm is required?

 

A++

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On 6 Sep 2018, at 1:28 pm, Sieghard Weitzel  wrote:

 

Is this a talking tape measure? Sorry, I didn’t have time yet to look at any of 
the links, but I’m a woodworker and always on the lookout for cool devices 
especially if they allow me to measure accurately down to the millimeter or 
when it comes to the imperial system at least to the sixteenth of an inch, down 
to 1/32 would be even better.

 

Regards,

Sieghard

 

From:  <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> viphone@googlegroups.com< 
<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> viphone@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of Yuma 
Decaux
Sent: Wednesday, September 5, 2018 11:41 AM
To:  <mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com> macvisionar...@googlegroups.com
Cc:  <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Macaron wins the Australian Dyson award

 

Hi everyone,

 

Yuma from oseyeris here. Before I head off to see 5 astrophysics phds from my 
uni to discuss everything about space, stars galaxies and of course, Astreos, I 
wanted to give y'all a heads-up on something else.

 

As we are a hardware/software for (currently for mac/IOS) crew that tackles all 
sorts of things that tends to complicate our lives as blind individuals who 
either have active lifestyles, go to uni, want to create or do things sighted 
people do, we have been awarded the prestigious Dyson award for the national 
competition in Australia for our Macaron, the universal access smart tape 
measure.

 

i wish I could send everyone a unit so you can feel it in your hands, play with 
the magnets that attach things together and make the process of measuring an 
amazing one, play with the app, etc. And I wish you could compare it with some 
previous prototypes we worked on just to see how cool it is now, but for the 
moment I invite you to have a read at the process and the jour

RE: Macaron wins the Australian Dyson award

[Mr. Ed]

Is this tape measure going to talk. I have the same one Sieghard has. So what 
is the app going to do and what is the tape measure going to do. Another words 
is the tape measure going to talk or is it going to give you dimension in the 
app. I use to be a machinist and a tool and die maker for 23 years. I would be 
interested in giving input.

Mr. Ed

 

From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of 
Yuma Decaux
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2018 8:25 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Macaron wins the Australian Dyson award

 

Hi Sieghard,

 

Yes, I have been interacting with the local Vision Australia woodwork shop, and 
the manager told me that sub millimeter or 1/32 inch accuracy was not 
necesarrily required but appreciated. However your opinion does incentivise us 
to actually go for the 1/32 holy grail, so I will push it into the dev pipeline.

 

For the ruggedness, we have been doing drop tests, and adapting the internals 
to take shocks, like slapping the unit across a dining table to crash against a 
wall or droping it from waist height directly onto it's LED face. We've had 
some casualties at the beginning, but are having much better results. We also 
have had several suggestions to add a lead to the unit so people can hang it 
around their necks or clip it to their waist. the unit is very lightweight 
because of its flexible ribbon, unlike the old types of tape measures. We did 
some modifications on being able to clip in several important internal 
components, so that we can fill spaces with various silicone and absorbing 
materials, looked at the casing's internal structure so that we can machine 
aluminum/metallic versions without it suffering dents and bumps, and have 
looked at creating a resin bumper around for those who tend to manhandle their 
devices.

 

Let's continue this conversation off list, as I would like to ask you a few 
more woodwork related questions.

 

have a great day 

 

 

 

 





On 6 Sep 2018, at 4:33 pm, Sieghard Weitzel  wrote:

 

Hi Yuma,

 

As I mentioned I do woodworking which means I do anything from carpentry like I 
am currently building a little addition on the side of my house for storage to 
making displays for my retail store to more fine woodworking projects like 
furniture, fancy cutting boards etc.

I have two main measuring devices I use to measure my workpieces and set up my 
machines like table saw, router, drill press etc.:

 

1. The Clickrule which is a mechanical device that consists of a main unit 
available in metric or imperial, accuracy is to the sixteenth of an inch and to 
the millimeter,, respectively. It is a bit hard to describe, maybe you know it 
already so for now I will leave it at this.

2. The Cobolt talking tape measure from England which can do either imperial or 
metric at the push of a button, accuracy to the millimeter for metric and 
sicteenth of an inch for imperial.

 

For the most part the sixteenth of an inch accuracy is OK, as you know the 
millimeter accuracy is about half way between that of a 1/16 to that of a 1/32 
so better than 1/16 but not quite 1/32.

In most woodworking projects you can get away with being off by a sixteenth of 
an inch, if you build drawers you don’t want it to be more than that, though, 
and sometimes it’s nice to have that extra accuracy, for example, if I want to 
drill a hole or use a router to route a resess that is of a certain depth etc.

 

One requirement I and any woodworker has and which is very important is 
ruggedness. The Cobalt talking tape measure is pretty good, it costs I think 
about 55 or 60 british pounds and I am on my second one; things drop or get 
bumped in a woodworking shop so it needs to be able to take an occasional drop 
etc.

 

Best regards,

Sieghard

 

From:  <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> viphone@googlegroups.com< 
<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> viphone@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of Yuma 
Decaux
Sent: Wednesday, September 5, 2018 11:18 PM
To:  <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Macaron wins the Australian Dyson award

 

Hi Sieghard,

 

Yes, it's the smart tape measure. We've so far increased the precision so worse 
case offset is within 1 mm. We're currently looking for higher resolution 
machines to CNC the internals, and adding some machine learning to fit 
individual tolerances for each unit so that we can increase accuracy over time 
to sub milllimeter precision. This will require sending data from the hardware 
to the app to our server on specific states, such as when idle or putting the 
app into background mode. The empirical to metric conversions are already there 
to 1/16th of an inch. 1/32 is something we are setting as a goal for the sake 
of being cool, but most of the initial testers have not expressed the necessity 
to do so. Can you give me some scenarios where .78 mm is required

Re: Macaron wins the Australian Dyson award

[Yuma Decaux]

Hi Mr. Ed,

Yes it talks. There's a bunch of synchronisations between device and app which 
allows for choosing measurement modes, folders or taking template sequences for 
measuring, sending to dropbox in various formats, firmware updates etc. You can 
either record measurements when offline, which then synchs automatically when 
the app opens, or do it with the app running, both active and in the background 
(meaning you can take measurements while your phone's in a pocket and it will 
confirm your measurements and recordings while the phone is closed). We have 
also integrated a speaker on the device for standalone voice output, though at 
this moment, I'm not satisfied with the TTS as I find it too low resolution to 
fit the quality of the device. There are a few more sensors inside that figures 
out whether you're right or left handed, then changes the push button functions 
to adapt to your style of holding the Macaron.

We are looking at 99 USD for one unit for the base version, and slightly more 
for the fancier one. The only difference is materials. 

As you seem to have a fair amount of knowledge and usage time with tape 
measures, I'd like to speak off list to ask you some use case scenarios. My 
email is anto...@oseyeris.com <mailto:anto...@oseyeris.com>


have a great day 



> On 7 Sep 2018, at 9:26 am, Mr. Ed  wrote:
> 
> Is this tape measure going to talk. I have the same one Sieghard has. So what 
> is the app going to do and what is the tape measure going to do. Another 
> words is the tape measure going to talk or is it going to give you dimension 
> in the app. I use to be a machinist and a tool and die maker for 23 years. I 
> would be interested in giving input.
> Mr. Ed
>   <>
> From: viphone@googlegroups.com <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> 
> [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>] On Behalf 
> Of Yuma Decaux
> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2018 8:25 AM
> To: viphone@googlegroups.com <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>
> Subject: Re: Macaron wins the Australian Dyson award
>  
> Hi Sieghard,
>  
> Yes, I have been interacting with the local Vision Australia woodwork shop, 
> and the manager told me that sub millimeter or 1/32 inch accuracy was not 
> necesarrily required but appreciated. However your opinion does incentivise 
> us to actually go for the 1/32 holy grail, so I will push it into the dev 
> pipeline.
>  
> For the ruggedness, we have been doing drop tests, and adapting the internals 
> to take shocks, like slapping the unit across a dining table to crash against 
> a wall or droping it from waist height directly onto it's LED face. We've had 
> some casualties at the beginning, but are having much better results. We also 
> have had several suggestions to add a lead to the unit so people can hang it 
> around their necks or clip it to their waist. the unit is very lightweight 
> because of its flexible ribbon, unlike the old types of tape measures. We did 
> some modifications on being able to clip in several important internal 
> components, so that we can fill spaces with various silicone and absorbing 
> materials, looked at the casing's internal structure so that we can machine 
> aluminum/metallic versions without it suffering dents and bumps, and have 
> looked at creating a resin bumper around for those who tend to manhandle 
> their devices.
>  
> Let's continue this conversation off list, as I would like to ask you a few 
> more woodwork related questions.
>  
> have a great day 
>  
>  
>  
>  
> 
> 
> On 6 Sep 2018, at 4:33 pm, Sieghard Weitzel  <mailto:siegh...@live.ca>> wrote:
>  
> Hi Yuma,
>  
> As I mentioned I do woodworking which means I do anything from carpentry like 
> I am currently building a little addition on the side of my house for storage 
> to making displays for my retail store to more fine woodworking projects like 
> furniture, fancy cutting boards etc.
> I have two main measuring devices I use to measure my workpieces and set up 
> my machines like table saw, router, drill press etc.:
>  
> 1. The Clickrule which is a mechanical device that consists of a main unit 
> available in metric or imperial, accuracy is to the sixteenth of an inch and 
> to the millimeter,, respectively. It is a bit hard to describe, maybe you 
> know it already so for now I will leave it at this.
> 2. The Cobolt talking tape measure from England which can do either imperial 
> or metric at the push of a button, accuracy to the millimeter for metric and 
> sicteenth of an inch for imperial.
>  
> For the most part the sixteenth of an inch accuracy is OK, as you know the 
> millimeter accuracy is about half way between that of a 1/16 to that of a 
&g