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Leeds Engineering Students: Want your Projects!

Wed, Nov 24 2010 02:47pm GMT 1
One Switch
One Switch
227 Posts
We were recently contacted by Paula Spencer of Switches4Kidz fame, whilst she was working on finding ideas for engineering students, linked to technology and accessibility. We've collated a few ideas below, which would be fantastic to see developed.

If you have any requests, please post them here. There's no promises that these students will be able to fulfil your requests, but you never know...

1. Wii Emulator for Switch users. Although there are a number of existing modification to the Wii-remote (http://www.gamebase.info/magazine/read/wii-mote-controllers---diy-accessibility-hacks_241.html) - nothing presently allows a push-button to emulate swinging the controller. It would be wonderful if there could be a way in for the likes of Wii-Sports, for accessibility switch users (http://www.oneswitch.org.uk/1/AGS/AGS-switch/1/switches.htm).
2. Thumb-Stick replacement for PS3 or Xbox 360 using a user-configurable head-tracker or eye-tracker.
3. Holy-Grail: http://switchgaming.blogspot.com/search?q=Holy+Grail - To find a way to get a lap-top accepting a wide range of inputs (keyboard, mouse, joystick) and interfacing these (either by 3.5mm patch leads or something like blue-tooth) to a range of games consoles and/or switch adapted/accessible gadgets/toys/devices.
Kim Darby and Ellie Darby (who we built a light Wii-remote for) from Essex asked me to put these forward too:
a. A way for Ellie to have better access to her lift. Presently the lift buttons are hard to reach/depress. They wondered about an iPad / iPhone App and/or a versatile remote interface that only needed light presses. They use a lift supplied by http://www.axess2.co.uk/ - who are based in Lancashire, which might be very convenient. Ellie's lift has these controls:
Emergency stop (presently impossible for her to use)
0
1
Alarm
Telephone (standard telephone, as I understand, to outside world).
b. Ellie asked for something to help her pick-up things that she drops. Current extendable grabbing arms are too heavy for her to use effectively.

c. Little Havens have an outdoors train. As I understand, the hospice would love it if the more disabled children there, could operate the train.
Thu, Nov 25 2010 01:46pm GMT 2
Bill (R&D, SpecialEffect)
Bill (R&D, SpecialEffect)
265 Posts

Extra Sensitive Thumbsticks for XBOX or PS3 control.

Fri, Jan 21 2011 04:13pm GMT 3
Switches 4 Kidz Leeds
Switches 4 Kidz Leeds
2 Posts

Just an update. I have paseed all these ideas on to the electronics department at York University and have a meeting next Friday with one of the tutors and students to discuss possible projects. Will let you know how I get on. The Music Technology Tutor is also interested in any ideas that anyone has so please let me know.

I have been talking with Caroline Brown, our new manager here at the centre and she has mentioned the NHS technology Development team and we will be approaching them particularly with the ideas about the lift and the item to pick things up from the floor.

Please keep passing the ideas on. You never know who might be listening!

Fri, Nov 11 2011 08:04pm GMT 4
FGC GrimReaper
FGC GrimReaper
4 Posts
My son Natty was born in 2001 but unfortunately wasn't got out in time and suffered a cerebral bleed, a bit like having a stroke during birth due to a lack of oxygen, this caused part of the left side of his brain to die and cause partial paralasis down the right hand side, right hemiplegic cerebral palsy. just before his 2nd birthday Natty suffered his first epileptic fit, as time went on his epilepsy got worse, sometimes to the point that the hospital nearly had to put him into a coma to stop the fits, after lots of telemetry and weeks of tests in london the surgeons and consultants at Kings College hospital decided that the medication he was on would not be able to control the fits he was having in his sleep which at some point would cause more brain damage and/or SDiE Sudden Death in Epilepsy, on August 2nd this year he underwent an operation called a left Hemispherectomy, in other words dis-connecting one side of the brain from the other and technically stopping the epilepsy, this operation was only the 31st time this procedure has been performed at Kings, after 4 weeks at Kings we came home with him and he is now making amazing progress, he has started walking a small distance and is sleeping properly now, he is actually having dreams for the first time in his life (although this actually freaked him out the first few nights)
the last few years we have been trying to information from Microsoft about producing a one handed controller but unfortunately with no joy, although we have found some places that produce a controller and some places that can make one specifically for Nat. we had one price from Ben Heck, $350 for a left handed controller, this is obviously alot of money for a controller, converted this is £220! more than a brand new Xbox 360!
any help from any direction would be brilliant to help our little lad play the thing he loves most, his xbox!
Mon, Nov 14 2011 03:03pm GMT 5
Bill (R&D, SpecialEffect)
Bill (R&D, SpecialEffect)
265 Posts

Thanks Stewart. The more solutions the merrier so any new and lower cost solutions are welcome.

We'll look forward to seeing yourself and Natty via the Specialeffect Loan Library.

Bill

Thu, Dec 8 2011 10:49am GMT 6
samenzhen
samenzhen
41 Posts
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