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devinprater / embossing.md
Last active August 26, 2023 09:08
Embossing text and images on WSL

Embossing text and Images using Windows and WSL

Recently, I've been looking for a free way to emboss not only text, but images too. While on Linux, I was able to connect the embosser through CUPS and use that to emboss images and text. Meanwhile, on Windows, there only seems to be free programs for embossing text, like BrailleBlaster. I know that images are harder, but if I could do it on Linux, surely I could do it through WSL2.

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devinprater / tech-day-04-13-2022.md
Last active April 13, 2022 14:59
Tech day notes for April 13

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devinprater / f123.md
Created April 15, 2020 14:05
F123-lite conclusion

Hi everyone,

I want to share what I think were positive results from the work we called F123Light, some lessons learned, and what I consider priorities for next steps, at least next steps I want to pursue.

Two important things for me were that this project was able to provide paid work opportunities to a bunch of talented blind persons in countries as varied as Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Egypt, India, the UAE, the UK, the US, and Russia. Even some sighted and low-vision persons got in on the action in Brazil, Egypt, Germany, Latvia, and the US. So it was very nice to have a chance to work with that remarkable group. A second key deliverable was that everything we worked on was free and open source, including documents, so it all remains available for others to build on.

Specifically, we either created from scratch, or made large contributions to, the following:

Letícia F123, high quality speech synthesizer for Brazilian Portuguese: https://F123.org/leticia Fenrir, command line screen reader: https://git

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devinprater / emacspeak-mac.md
Last active February 7, 2024 12:04
Using Emacs, and Emacspeak, on Mac

Emacs, with Emacspeak, on macOS

This guide will, through open source collaboration, spell checking, and Doctor Pepper, show users of Apple (Mac) computers how to install Emacs, Emacspeak, and link the two together for an enjoyable text editing experience, and if there is enough Doctor Pepper, how to best use the included Emacs modes for greater productivity than is provided by newer software. There