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Why not that is, if you have a prosthetic arm. Although it's hard to believe we haven't seen this before, [Trevor Prideaux], according to [The Telegraph's] article, "has become the world's first ever patient to have a smartphone docking system built into his prosthetic arm." [Trevor] was born without a forearm, and, as he puts it, he's used to adapting to things. However, he thought others … [Read more...]
This is a concept input device that [Tech B] built for disabled users. The device uses an accelerometer along with a piezo sensor (right click) and a push button (left click) to function as a mouse. The Arduino that resides in a breadboard on the side of the hat communicates with the computer over a serial connection, using PySerial to translate the microcontroller data into cursor commands with … [Read more...]
[Techb] had a friend who was paralyzed after an accident and could no long use a computer. He rigged up an amazingly simple mouse interface using python to implement infrared tracking. The controller was built from an old hat by adding an IR LED and wireless mouse modified so that the button could be clicked by the user's mouth. A webcam with exposed film used as a filter can track the IR LED and … [Read more...]
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