Go Baby Go!
Fab. More info on the Go Baby Go project here with a nice manual on how-to here.
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The ramblings of a mad person. So I figure I can do something as a weekend bit of fun and do a Open source version of a Tandem Master using a Teensy. There is some code to work from (see the bitbucket listed here)
My soldering is shoddy. I’m going to hold my breath and try and dig deep to do some C to make this work - if you fancy giving me a hand I’m all ears (NB: There is a real need to get this working. It is for fun but there are users who need this..)
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theotsiproject:
Terrific visual of handwriting grips. #OT #Handwriting #Grips
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Real classy inclusion Mr Photographer
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“If you want to take my parking, take my disability” Sign in Saudi.
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I keep getting picked up on my pronunciation of town names up in Manchester and I think of this.
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For individuals who struggle to re-position a mouse it can be useful to build a frame so when they hit the edge it’s a reminder to lift up and re-place the mouse in the middle. Well, make one or use your degree certificate..
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Been following these ideas for a while since the early trials in Sweden/Denmark. Nice to see its working in the UK too.
laughingsquid:
Poynton Regenerated, English Village Revives Town Center by Removing Traffic Signals
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Fab video - chuffed to bits for everyone who got involved with this. The outcome is great.
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If you look at the research on vocabulary acquisition, you’ll find a surprising result: weirdly enough, learning groups of similar words (apple, pear, banana) is significantly harder to learn. You’ll be much better off if you either learn words in unrelated groups (apple, dog, red) or in groups that form stories (apple, sweet, to eat). — Interesting article discussing the research on efficient ways of learning vocabulary. In short - chain words together to learn them - not group them in categories. Be aware though - this doesn’t neccessarily mean categorising them in a AAC system is a bad idea - its just questioning how we learn the words. See here for the full article.
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Hellen Keller and her communication system.
“It is not blindness or deafness that bring me my darkest hours,”.. “It is the acute disappointment in not being able to speak normally. Longingly I feel how much better I could have done if I had acquired normal speech. But out of this sorrowful experience, I understand more fully all human tragedies, thwarted ambitions, and the infinite capacity of hope.”
See also this video of Anne Sulliivan and Helen with some more information about her speech development.
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This is a pretty amazing little film. Interesting for anyone interested in Occupational Therapy, Assistive Technology, AAC and Communication, film-making.. Everyone.
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Wonderful little film. The backstory is just as interesting.
Shelter: a look at Manchester's homeless. Full film. from Mike Staniforth on Vimeo.
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CiteUSync (python)
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Updated the Music Switcher recently. Amongst other things:
Support for more switch boxes by using alternative key codes. Particularly useful for the Don Johnston box A better way to access help and the latched time using an option in the right click of the menu tray. Heck of a lot nicer. Support for VLC. I hate the way Windows Media Player (and iTunes to a certain extent) is awful at dealing with anything other than video encoded in 1998. So the music switcher now works with VLC too. The full details is here
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Happy St Patricks Day/Weekend(!)
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Loving Andy Councils work. (The babel tower of language)
This was for a feature on learning languages and communicating with people. It is a modern tower of Babel type thing. It goes from the bottom level where there is a language gene that people share with Chickens, Crocodiles and Cats to the top where people are able to communicate by reading each others thoughts!
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Rubber bands rule (If you have a spare hour watch the much longer chat here)
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A little montage from my walk round town
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Mark & Sam. Two fab people who use AAC & AT highlighted by the Guardian Christmas Appeal for the ACE Centre.
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(via ACE Centre Christmas charity appeal – video)
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Dogs driving cars. Awesome. Now cats - follow that!
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<h1>How to get a Exchange 2003 Public Shared Calendar on an iPhone (using Outlook 2007) (and maybe Dropbox)</h1>
I really hate exchange. Like really. As time goes by it looks like Exchange and the days of Outlook are numbered - Office 365, Google Apps, iCloud and the like do look like the future. Thank goodness. However the future isn’t quite here for everyone just yet. If your office run a Exchange server you can get Mail, Calendars, Contacts and Notes on your iPhone if your IT department run all the numerous patches and learn about active sync…. Yay! However if you use a shared Calendar managed through the Public Calendars feature of Exchange its not so easy to get this on your mobile device. Infact Public folders/calendars aren’t supported by the iPhone whatsoever. Boo! But don’t despair! I’ve done it! Yay! How I hear you ask?!?
Well in short it requires:
Publishing your Calendar. Outlook really only allows you to do this using WebDAV so you need either a webDAV server locally or remotely. If its locally we can use Dropbox to make it available anywhere and everywhere. Adding a full URL to the *.ics file to your iPhone. Before we begin, note the problems with this approach:
If your machine that does the publishing is ever off it won’t update your Published calendar Due to the way publishing works it is never “live” its always a copy of what is being made on the server.. Still, I think this approach is way better than other methods (e.g. the Google Sync method) which are equally always out of date. Step 1 - Set-up a WebDAV server
Two options for this. If you have access to a server I would recommend setting up a WebDAV share on that. Follow these tips for that if you are on a Linux box running Apache. NB: Access to the vhost file is needed - you can’t usually do this just with .htaccess files. NB2: We are not setting up a CalDAV server here - we are just publishing a file to a webDAV server. Our phone will then grab the URL of this .ics file when its live so your WebDAV server needs to allow public (unauthenticated) access to your file. For security I recommend making your ics file a rather random string (step 2).
Otherwise set-up a webDAV server on your own machine. This doesn’t have to be accessible from the outside world - we will use Dropbox for that. Follow these instructions to do this on Windows - and do follow it by the letter - including the Windows Authentication features that need to be installed. I was scratching my head for sometime wondering why the thing wasn’t allowing me access. grrrrr…
Set the WebDAV folder up to somewhere in your Dropbox. If you aren’t bothered by someone accidentally finding the Calendar then place it in your Public folder however I would recommend placing it outside of the Public folder of dropbox.
Step 2 - Publish the Calendar
Follow these steps. For the WebDAV server details enter them; either the ones on your public webDAV server or the ones from your localmachine. For this it will be
(if your WebDAV share is “Calendars”.. Make sure you follow the tutorials and this will hopefully make sense)
Step 3 - Add the calendar URL to your Phone
If you have gone the Private WebDAV/Dropbox route you will need to get the link of the .ics file recently created by the publishing by Outlook. Navigate to the file in question in Explorer, right click and select “Share Link”. A web page so appear (login to dropbox if it asks you for that). On the “Download” button control+right click and copy the link. This is your ics url that you will need on your iPhone. I recommend emailing yourself this link!
If you have gone the Public WebDAV route then things are a bit neater for you. Just note the URL to where the file is and away you go (remember though that it needs to be viewable by all - no authentication for read access).
So now you have a link to the file - something like
https://dl.dropbox.com/s/9890890adadsad987ad/Your_Shared_Diary_Calendar.ics?dl=1
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Now simply add that to an “Other” calendar account in your phone. Follow these steps for that..
Side-Notes
Do look at DavMail if you need to get your Outlook account playing nicely with Mail, Calendar and Contacts on a Mac or Linux box. Note though that Public Calendars won’t work if there is a space in the Calendar name. No matter what. So the above approach is still useful.