LipSync Update: The Joystick Debate
For the last days of 2016, the LipSync team is working hard to “freeze” the design ahead of the Access Makeathon on January 27th.
There’s one thing, though, that we’re still trying to nail down — the joystick.
LipSync Update: Access Makeathon
In partnership with Rick Hansen Foundation, SFU’s School of Interactive Arts and Technology, TechSoup NetSquared, Tom Global, UBC Women in Engineering, and UBC Young Women in Engineering and Science, we are organizing a 48 hour event called the Access Makeathon from January 27th to 29th, 2017.
LipSync Update: Angela and Kelly
Last week, we welcomed two new, albeit temporary, members to our team — Angela and Kelly. For the week, we had two high school students come and actually make some LipSyncs.
LipSync Update: User Testing
We have one LipSync out the door. After helping us with another round of testing, Don Danbrook took a LipSync home, and became the very first recipient of a LipSync device.
Ean continues to make a difference with Technology@Work
A web designer, inventor, entrepreneur, advocate, and much more, Ean is a man of many talents. His company, ICAN Resource Group Inc., is just as diverse, with services ranging from medical assistive technology to multimedia development. However, Ean has Muscular Dystrophy (SMA Type 2), and needed a tablet to communicate his ideas to clients, as well as a Bluetooth module to interface the tablet with his chair.