Category: accessible Devices
Hey.
So i've spent the last few days at uni settling in. The campus is huge and its going to take a stupidly long amount of time for me to learn where things are. As part of this grant that I get because i'm disabled, i'm meant to be getting a trecker breze to help with this. I'd be interested in what people think of this device - i've never used one before so i'm not really sure if it was worth the £650. To give you an idea, at my old school, I was able to guide totals to shops and stuff like that, so i'm finding it pretty annoying depending on other people.
Any thoughts are welcome.
BEN.
One thing that I think the Trekker breeze can do is to remember routes. So if you teach it to go from one place to another, it will remember it. I haven't studied the unit that well, but it also has a breadcrum feature where you drop breadcrumbs from time to time and it will help you follow the path on the return trip and on future trips
I got to play with one. As the last poster said, you can teach it to remember routes if you walk them. You can't use it to plot a route in advance, and I don't recall if you can program it with routes you've gotten from the Internet, or using some other mapping software. I remember thinking at the time it was rather limmitting, but it really depends on what you want to do with the device. Keep us posted as to how it works out in meeting your needs, and good luck.
Lou
That is the device where it will give you clock face directions for where you are? For instance, if the building is on your right, it will say 9 o'c? or is that another model?
Whoops, meant 3 o'c. sorry.
the device is rather limited compared to every other gps solution for the blind out there.
you know you could of saved some money and just went with loadstone gps, providing you are using an already accessible nokia phone, especially its does much of the same thing and its a free open source program. Also i know with loadstone gps you can add maps from the internet and be able to have some amount of route plotting abilities.
the tracker breze is good, all any of the assessable GPS is good. but however though, it might have problems locating stuff under cover as it is all run under settrelight navigation.
there's advantage and disadvantage with breze or however it spell. as most posters says, it can remember rutes but it aint allow you to have advance planning on rute that you've never travel.
it might be more helpful to ask your local blind organization to help you to draw a map of your campus, or the specific area that you'll use in your campus, that would be more helpful, as you will be only travelling a specific rutes, instead of covering the whole campus.
to be honest, not many students will use the whole campus, only specific few buildings or few locations that you need to get to.
tracker or breze is great, but i would think it will be more benifitial for people who constently travel alot, from places to places, or cities to cities.
remember, with the tracker or breze or any GPS software/hardware, a campus will only cover a very small part in a normal map, but you want something that can cover beyond a normal map specificly your university.
but of course, that is just my view.
good luck