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I rigged up an assistive device.

An electronic magnifier that puts an image from a hand-held mouse-style camera on a (46 inch / 116cm on the diagonal) television screen.

Effective magnification is 20 times.

Magnifiers with small screens at high magnifications show only a small section of text.
My large screen allows multiple words & adjacent lines to be on the screen.
Orientation is easier to maintain.

Pics to come.

#AssistiveDevice #DIY #ElectronicMagnifier #MacularDegeneration #Dementia

#AssistiveDevice #DIY #Optics #Lenses #Blind

Have a hand-held, near field, low cost camera. See pic below of it upside down.
USB is power supply only. Image out is the red video cable. Audio out yellow

Calling it a #MouseCamera.

How do I go about replacing the lens with one that will focus at ~3 times the current text-lens distance?

Seeking a large field of view on large TV screen.
Which would make whole phrases of text readable. As opposed to several characters from 1 word.

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