I will be buying cases and heat sinks for these pi units since that will make them more able to travel somewhat safely. The Micro-sd, is that a memory card the pi uses for its hard drive? Thanks much for this information and I will be checking out raspberryvi.org out too. On Mon, 25 Mar 2019, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2019 09:02:34 > From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > To: blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: new technology for me > > For setting up a basic command-line system with speech, all you really > need aside from the board itself is a microSD, power supply, > earphones/speaker to plug into the 3.5 mm audio jack, and a USB > keyboard for input. Granted, you might want to put the board in a case > and install some heat sinks, and a wired internet connection might be > useful if you don't have a wpasupplicant.conf you can just drop into > /etc/wpasupplicant. Even if you're doing a sighted setup, a HDMI > display for the Pi is optional as initial setup can be done from a > desktop machine via ssh(you'll need to put a blank text file named ssh > in the root of the SD card's boot partition to enable this). > > As for the actual setup, there's a few choices of both distro and what > to use for accessibility. My current Pi setup uses Raspbian with > piespeakup, but I hear the broken alsa driver that made espeakup > stutter to the point of uselessness has been fixed, I've heard of > people having success with the Fenrir screen reader, the Arch and > Slackware distros, and F123 produces images based on Arch that have > Fenrir running as the default. There's also been reports of getting > Orca running, though most reports I've read say Orca and a full > graphical desktop environment slow the Pi down too much, though most > tests have used Gnome or Mate, so the jury is out on lighter options. > > That said, you might want to cheack out raspberryvi.org and its > associated mailing list as their focus is on blind accessibility on > the Pi specifically. > > On 3/25/19, Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I am interested in buying two raspberry kits and installing linux on both > > of them so the linux will talk. I have access to Walmart and the walmart > > app too. My problem is I've never had firsthand contact with raspberry pi > > technology. One of these raspberry pi kits will be a gift for a good > > friend and he definitely needs his raspberry pi to talk since all he can > > do with his vision is to see light. I got interested in doing this since > > while trying to help him install slint he shut his computer down at the > > wrong time and now all that shows up is grub-rescue when the computer > > boots and the other drives only light up temporarily. I did not tell him > > to shut the system down, this was something he did on his own. I figure > > if he has a Pi he can use to connect to his wi-fi he can at least get out > > onto the internet with it. > > So, what I need to know is what to buy so all of this will work > > sceamlessly once all of the installation and configuration is finished. > > Both of us have peripherals which may or may not work with the kit. > > > > > > > > -- > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list mailing list > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > -- _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list