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 <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 <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: <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 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. 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