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Finally got the software for the Y.D.'s talking compass sort-of working
this morning. It's a kludge, of course: it involves having the little
controller print out something like "say north" and piping
that into /bin/bash, which runs a local script called "say".
It also required hacking Acroname's console application so that it doesn't use the
curses library, thus making it useable in scripts. I wasn't
totally successful -- as I said, it's a kludge -- but it works well
enough. Now I just have to put it onto a laptop so she can run some user
tests, and write it up (and hope she can explain at least a little of it).
Hopefully it's not due until next week, but I have my doubts. Yes, I should have started working on it two weeks ago. I was sick, even though I didn't realize it at the time.
