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Easy AT Switch Positioning w/Free 3D Printed Camera Mounts

Positioning switches is critical for folks with severe and profound physical challenges. Getting the AT Switch “just right” reduces fatigue, increases accuracy, and makes communication and environmental control much more successful.

[For those of you on the Maker side who don’t understand AT Switches, check out Max Lasko rockin’ on two switches to control the My Pal Scout we made for him.]
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iOS Switch Control on a Budget using Bluetooth Keyboards

In this guide, we will show how to use inexpensive Bluetooth Keyboards and related devices to make iOS Switch Control interfaces.  This video shows you how to do it and the guide blow shows everything you want to know!
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End-to-end How-To Video of the Cariboo Adaptation

Cariboo is a great way to teach AAC scanning for target pictures by playing to win the treasure! This popular game by Cranium, no longer available in the stores, provides a great example of how to AT Switch Enable a commercial board game.  We’ve finally done a full end-to-end video of how to make the Cariboo Adaptation.

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Connect an AT Switch as a PC Keyboard for under $20

Background: What are AT Switches?

People with physical challenges often are very limited in their ability to make precise movements with their arms, fingers, etc.  (This is known as having poor “fine motor” control.)

This severely limits their ability to control things like keyboards, mice, pens and pencils.  If the person is also unable to speak, they may have no way to communicate.

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Our First Project: A Switch Enabled Cariboo Game

This site is our first attempt to express a simple idea:

Open Source Hardware (and Software) provides tools that the Assistive Technology users could benefit from tremendously.  Let’s make that happen.

Our first project will be to create complete instructions for the Switch-Enabled Cariboo® Game we created for display in the LessonPix.com booth.  Hopefully, this will lead to more detailed discussions of how the amazing low-cost commodity hardware now available to Makers can help those who rely on Assistive Technology.

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