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product idea -- electronic, flexible, letterboard

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Hello, I have the following idea in mind and I am wondering if your company can help: Please take a look at the following: [login to view URL] I am inquiring about creating an 'electronic' flexible letterboard that would be used by non-speaking individuals. The size would be similar to the plastic letterboards seen on this video. The front would contain a character set (maybe selectable depending on what country you are in, and contain both letters and numbers) that would use require 'touch' to select the letter. The back would be a simple black and white display showing what the person is typing -- allowing the listener to easily read what the person is typing. The display would also insert spaces at the end of words, provide capitalization at the beginning of a sentence, etc. Is this possible? Thanks for your help. Note, ideally, on some future version, I would like the front side character set to be selectable - i.e. during setup, select what language/character set to use, and then have those letters appear on the front side - being able to use touch to select these letters and have the sentence show on the back side for the listener to easily read. This should be a very simple device - similar to what you see in the video. The key purpose is to provide the back side display of what the non-speaking person is typing on the front side. Hopefully, the board would be designed to be flexible and use lower power to preserve battery life - and have an easy way to change a small commonly found battery, or maybe even offer USB charging. I may have found a company that could provide the flexible displays: [login to view URL];data=02%7C01%7C%7Ce9f6fa6258ec40cd4b7b08d6df5f27db%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636941997108898148&sdata=KBmcWPbOIOLOCO9HTOpUbAaOdr532zDSOkZv8zc0jCs%3D&reserved=0 Also, the total weight of this device cannot be more than 100 grams. The reason being is that this object will be held in one outstretched hand, potentially for a long period of time while communicating. The current letterboard that we use weighs about 51 grams, so I am doubling that for a max weight for this electronic letter board. Thank you. Thank you, John Nyland
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Hi There, I am Shahbaz Ali, an experienced electronics engineer having 15 years of R&D experience. I am running a company that develops prototypes of electronic circuits based on customer needs. We will design, built, test and deliver fully working prototype of the required Flexible Electronic board. Please feel free to contact us. Best Regards, Shahbaz.
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Before awarding to anyone, give me a chance to discuss it with you. I am embedded system electronics engineer with 3 years of experience in iot development. I have expertise in development board Arduino, ESP8266, Raspberry Pi, etc and the microcontroller ARM, Microchip, stm32f, etc. I can design and develop PCB. I have worked on home automation, beacon based indoor positioning system, wireless speaker, smart parking system with real parking spots update on mobile app, etc. Another iot product I worked on was women saftety device, on which, if women press the button, her location is shared with her family members and it starts recording audio to a cloud server automatically, while at the same time it calls nearest police station automatically. Please consider sending me a message so that we can discuss this further
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Dear Sir, I am an electrical engineer with 19 years experience in this area , listed among top talented freelancers here. I have built systems for non-speaking individuals and people with other kinds of disablility. I am going through your requirements and will have some question. I am interested in your project , product idea -- electronic, flexible, letterboard Please send me a private chat message.
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Hello John! Let me add some thoughts to the description of your ideas. As I understand, the back side of device will contain the characters to type on to display the text on the other, front side. This sounds like to have two displays, one from the front and one from the back side, plus the back side should have a touch sensor to recognize the selected character. In this way it is possible to implement what you have described about the selectable character set. The capitalization at the beginning of sentence is also easily implementable, but the automatic space insertion after words is a bit complicated (if do you mean that) because whole dictionaries should be added to recognize the words, if do you mean adding a "Space" as key, like on the keyboards, so that's possible. If do you want to make the device flat as possible, a custom made battery can be ordered as an option if the standard ones can not fit. A low power consumption microcontroller should be used to drive the displays, and the whole driver circuit can be placed on a flexible PCB. The battery charger can be as a USB one or even a contactless charger could be applied. If you have any other ideas or questions, feel free to contact me!
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Hi, I understand the requirement and can work with you to develop such a device. it can be very simple without requiring display while doing the function. I have a good possible solution for that. Look forward to discussing it with you. edit: weight can be kept less than 100g
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Hello, We are a Turkey-based company and we offer product design & development and mass production services to our customers. We can help you to create an electronic letterboard as you need. Please contact me to talk more about your project. Best Regards Ates Gokdemir Nijiworks
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Hi, I saw your job description and video carefully. And you asked it is possible, Yes, it is possible enough. We have full experiences with EE design and development include IoT products. It is not so complex for us. We are sure we can handle this letterboard with touchscreen by using such as e-ink pad and good firmware. And we will use Li-po battery for very low consumption and it will use for a week. and also use USB Micro port like android mobile. We hope you are going well to grow non-speaking kids and to discuss in more detail with you. Best regards, Chunyan Y.
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