| tags: programming, ideas, links, enabling technology
Meg pointed out the Raw Input API for Windows. This would allow us to distinguish among multiple mice and keyboards. It might be interesting to use multiple numeric keyboards as specialized input devices, or multiple mice to provide 2 or 3 switches per hand.
| tags: motor impaired, enabling technology, links
Minh-Tri Pham wrote with info on his PyCV package . This could be very useful for locating kid's faces for games and therapy for kids who are motor impaired. His demo works fine on my Ubuntu system.
| tags: random
I was excited about potential for the XO as a delivery vehicle for assistive technology. The laptop looks great online so I ordered one through the buy one get one program. I figured we'd get to develop a demonstration on it for Maze Day. Boy am I disappointed...
| tags: mac, programming
I'm writing this down because I don't see complete working (for me at least) directions anywhere else.
| tags: mac, programming, enabling technology
I regularly get requests from teachers at schools that are Mac based for versions of our software that will work for them. I want every kid to have access to our stuff so I bought a Mac mini for development. I'd rather be running OS X in a virtual machine but Apple won't let me do that. So I've got the mini sitting here with its video out connected to one of the inputs on my right projector and I hacked a python wrapper for synergy server to switch the projector source when I move the mouse off my Ubuntu desktop onto the mini. It works great. Combine that with MacFusion for file sharing and routing the mini's audio output into the line-in on my Ubuntu machine and it is just about as good as a VM would be.
| tags: deaf, enabling technology, links
Steve pointed me to an interesting article about using PlayStation Portables with children who are deaf .
| tags: recipes
Delicious sorbet and really easy to make.
| tags: links
This video shows a brilliant mechanical implementation of the old NES game Super Mario Brothers. I really enjoy seeing this kind of "out of the box" thinking.
| tags: programming
I downloaded a book from netlibrary.com via our campus library. When I tried to play it Windows Media Player (on VMware) would complain that it couldn't play it with the only explanation being C00D11B1 (real useful). The error apparently means something went wrong. I tried several fixes none of which helped. I finally found the suggestion to delete the content of the DRM folder (c:\Document and Settings\All Users\DRM). I had to use regedit to find it. After deleting the content of that folder, opening the book produced the login response I expected and now the file plays fine. It is incredible to me that WMP was broken in this way. I created this VM and installed Windows XP SP2 fresh on it recently. This was the very first occasion that WMP has ever been used on this machine!
| tags: recipes
Remove the 1847 Sourdough Starter from the refrigerator, add 1 cup of flour and 1 cup of warm water; stir well. Cover with wax paper and allow it to bubble for 2 to 12 hours. I stir mine from time to time and just before measuring.