The Raspberry Pi 400 I mention doesn't need to be hacked into anything. The board is inside of a regular keyboard. It's not the full 101-key keyboard like I use on most machines, but it has 78 keys and has an fn key that when held down turns the right side of the keyboard into a number pad. Yes, I do use an external battery pack that connects to the power, but I carry the whole thing in a very small case that has a pocket on the outside for the battery, the very small USB sound device and a pair of small speakers or headphones. It is far less cumbersome to carry around than a laptop, and is even smaller than a tablet. And just to be clear, this is no "note taker" or e-reader, it is rather a fully functional computer with a standard input interface that is easy for anyone to use. Stormux isn't a hack either. I use the MATE desktop on it, but you can also use GNOME, a window manager like I3 or a regular shell if you like. It's completely up to you, and the interface that makes all this work is menu driven using arrow keys and the like. Yes, it does come up talking so that anyone can use it without seeing it, and that makes it highly configurable with little stress. It also took little time or effort to get DECTalk speaking on this machine, though I believe it comes with RHVoice out of the box, which some people feel sounds a little better, especially at high speeds. I personally have come to love DECTalk over the years though, and find that its rather newly available source code and lack of licence file serial number stuff is a great thing whose time should have come long ago, so I took the time to get it working, which is actually a fairly simple and fast build process. I hesitate slightly to say too much about this in public forums, but I think charging a ridiculous price like $800 or more for something based on a $75 Raspberry Pi that has a braille keyboard with only 7 keys on it because it says "blind" on it is criminally insane, and I personally won't even give such a device a second look. I nearly died of sticker shock when I saw that price, especially since I made a Raspberry Pi 400 that is built into its own keyboard do more stuff than the base version of that thing can do for less than a tenth of the price of the pro version. I'm sure someone will pay that much for something like that, but it most certainly would never be me, and I do know how to read and write braille. ~Kyle -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to blinux-list+unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxx.