EyeWriter is the fruit of the KanEye project

eyewriter-project

The EyeWriter is an open source eye tracking initiative. This is the mature version of the KanEye project we covered in April. Collaboratively developed by Free Art and Technology (FAT), OpenFrameworks, and the Graffiti Research Lab, they seek to aid a friend of theirs who suffers from the degenerative muscle disease ALS. They've come a long way since we last looked in on the progress. The … [Read more...]

KanEye tracking system preview

[Tempt One] is a graffiti artist who has Lou Gehrig's disease. He can no longer physically produce art, since his disease has taken his ability to control his arms. His friends, won't let that be the end of it though. They're building a visual tracking system to let him work by moving his eye. It seems like it would be very difficult to get any kind of a smooth curve out of eye movement, but the … [Read more...]