mikemarotta wrote: ↑Thu Feb 17, 2022 1:38 am
Discussing the first binocular microscope, this came up:
dtsh wrote: ↑Thu Feb 17, 2022 1:00 am
A bit weird by today's standards, but I agree pneumatic controls that didn't need the hands to operate can have utility.
So, I wonder: Siri or Alexa interfaces? It would seem that voice control would be available by now. For that matter, electric sewing machines have long since had foot controls.
Personal computers have had voice and speech for probably 40 years now.
It seems odd that there has been no demand for this.
Thanks.
Mike M.
Neither Siri nor Alexa, not voice control, but mouth; either by manipulating a controller with the mouth or, what seems more common to me, the use of pneumatics by blowing/sucking on a tube with a mouthpiece. I've seen the later still occasionally used for control of manipulators. I don't expect to see such become more common, if anything I would expect to see more computer control and automation. Voice control, as you mention, has been done for years, I can recall automating things with voice control at the turn of the century; I considered it a novelty then as I do now. I don't see much utility in voice control on micropscopy equipment, the functions aren't really that difficult to do and I can't see how voice control would simplify any of it (not that my inability to imagine it makes it nonexistent).
As others have mentioned, foot control have been in recorded use for a long time. The first that jumps to mind is the use of foot control for switching power to illuminators.
Thats why nobody else wants to use your microscopes!