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Re: Yayagram

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Post by eric_h »

ALittleLight wrote: post #60

My thoughts are that the font should be larger for the names and and for the text output. Ideally include pictures next to the names, so even if it's hard to read, it would be easy to spot who you want to connect to. I didn't see it, but you also probably need a notification to reload the paper roll as you come to the end. This could be a warning LED and it could also be a warning text sent to some or all of the peop…

> you also probably need a notification to reload the paper roll as you come to the end.

I think you just buy the paper rolls that are pink for the last (innermost) few feet of the roll.

Re: Yayagram

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Post by psadri »

askvictor wrote: post #142
psadri wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The cable could be replaced with a rotary switch with stops for each recipient. I’d also add a picture of each grandchild in addition to the name. But overall, this is an awesome idea :-)

Or a set of radio buttons (i.e. from an actual radio).

The old radio metaphor would work pretty well!

Re: Yayagram

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Post by jkestner »

dqpb wrote: post #7

I want one. In fact I want there to be a whole line of quirky hardware interfaces to do simple things that we usually use a phone or computer for. They’re fun and I think kids would love them.

My (old) entry is a nightstand that prints photos you email it, and emails documents put into the drawer: https://johnkestner.com/tableau/

I had started by giving my great aunt a 3com Audrey. She loved this internet appliance, but it couldn't keep up, crashing when she got an email over 1MB.

Re: Yayagram

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Post by sedatk »

askvictor wrote: post #143
sedatk wrote: post #130

This is brilliant, but maybe I missed it: what happens when yaya's run out of thermal paper? It feels like the Achilles' heel of this design. Perhaps, a blinking LED for out of paper situation? Can yaya change the roll herself? I'm concerned about it because I loved this project in all aspects, I want it to be perfect.

Perhaps (depending on yaya's ability), it could detect a low-paper situation, and send a message to the creator, or perhaps order a new one directly?

Yeah, I hope the creator did something like that. I'd be sad if the thing would just stopped printing and yaya would wonder why there were no replies to her messages anymore.

Re: Yayagram

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Post by tyingq »

That's really awesome. Then this comment:

"Is there any other way than thermal paper? It can't be processed like normal paper after usage. So it's quite bad for the Environment."

Heh. I wonder how much paper he thinks Yaya is using per annum.

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Post by speedgoose »

My grandmother uses a smartphone since the first Samsung Galaxy Note, the first smartphone to have a big screen about 10 years ago. She is doing perfectly fine to receive and send text messages, photos, videos, and give audio and video calls.

Re: Yayagram

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Post by skybrian »

emmelaich wrote: post #147
FredPret wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wish I could buy and ship this to my mom. Don’t have the time to set it up and she lives far away.

You could get a Google Max and use Duo calls.

I do that with my mother and it works well. However, it wasn't easy at all to set up, and she couldn't have done it on her own. The timing was fortunate since I got it for her before the pandemic.

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Post by frereubu »

khazhoux wrote: post #96
frereubu wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Absolutely. I'm very sensitive to that kind of thing because I have a 90-year-old mother who I hate people writing off like that. But unless I missed it he doesn't say "Even your grandmother can use it" in his thread does he? I just feel like you're picking the wrong item to hang this argument from.

The inventor was not generalizing, but when it starts moving from his one-off to a product idea (as lots of folks are asking for him to productize it) that where my argument comes in. Most likely this won't be a real product anyway, so I suppose I'm just trying to draw attention to this meme that does happen a lot.

I see you're getting a bunch of downvotes. I hope I didn't bring those on - I know you're engaging in good faith and I agree with your basic premise. It would make a good blog post if you fancied writing it and posting here.

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Post by Zanni »

atleta wrote: post #125
andrewzah wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's called that because they made it specifically for their grandmother. Do we really need to state that it's going to depend on the particular person and their needs? Also, that grandmother is _96_. That is not even remotely close to someone in their ~70s. It is also dependent on the person: one of my grandmothers (around 70) doesn't like ipads, and can operate phones a little bit. My other grandma, similar age, lo…

Actually, I wanted to say something very similar. And when you said it was for his very specific _96_ year old grandma, I went back and checked if I missed the obvious. But a quick 2nd scan (and a search on the string 96) didn't bring it up. I'm not saying you're wrong, indeed I'm pretty sure you're right, but it's very-very far from obvious. Also, the initial tweet itself talks about the issue in pretty generic term…

As an aside, manual switchboards survived longer than you may think. My summer job in the 1980s was as a telephone operator on a manual switchboard. This was in California. I don't think they completed the switch to digital until the 90s. And I did get the distinct impression that grandma had been a #cablegirl.

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Post by spoonjim »

FredPret wrote: post #94
roamingryan wrote: post #83

I built out a simple "technology access" solution for my late grandma about five years ago. It was just some simple scripts running on a raspberry pi. The scripts would fetch emails from a gmail account, extract the attachments, and display them on loop. The subject line of the email, sender and the date were overlayed on the image. The advantage over those IoT picture frame products was that I could use any display…

I wish I could buy and ship this to my mom. Don’t have the time to set it up and she lives far away.

You can, the company is called Nixplay.
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