Hackaday (unofficial) July 24, 2024 9:00pm A Puzzle for the Visually Impaired, or Blindfolded #games #3dprinting #puzzle #visuallyimpaired #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 A Puzzle For The Visually Impaired, Or Blindfolded There’s no reason why a visually impaired person can’t enjoy putting together a jigsaw puzzle. It just needs to look a little different. Or, in this case, feel different. 16-year-old [f…
Hackaday (unofficial) November 2, 2021 7:00pm Flying Blind: Taking Flight Simulation To A New Level In Accessibility #classichacks #accessibility #blind #blindness #flightsimulator #screenreader #visuallyimpaired #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Flying Blind: Taking Flight Simulation To A New Level In Accessibility Software developers [Andy Borka] and [Jason Fayre] have a love for aviation. They are also both totally blind. They’ve developed software called Talking Flight Monitor, and it has made flight…
Hackaday (unofficial) October 25, 2021 5:00am Omni-Wheeled Cane Steers the Visually-Impaired Away From Obstacles #lifehacks #microcontrollers #news #cane #gps #lidar #omniwheel #visuallyimpaired #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Omni-Wheeled Cane Steers The Visually-Impaired Away From Obstacles Sure, there are smart canes out there, commercial and otherwise. We’ve seen more than a few over the years. But a group of students at Stanford University have managed to bring something nove…
Hackaday (unofficial) May 12, 2021 7:00pm Seeing-Eye Shoes Pair Computer Vision with Haptic Feedback #lifehacks #medicalhacks #assistivetechnology #hapticfeedback #navigation #neuralnetworks #ultrasonicdistancesensor #visuallyimpaired #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Seeing-Eye Shoes Pair Computer Vision With Haptic Feedback Over the years, we’ve seen plenty of projects that use ultrasonic or time-of-flight sensors as object detection methods for the visually impaired. Ultrasonic sensors detect objects like sonar…