A blog for my speaking tour, trip and adventure to Australia for the Australian Flexible Learning Framework. Friday, November 24, 2006. More Audio and Pictures from ACT. A few more podcasts from my time in Australia. I am still avoiding listening to them. Denial? The photos are pretty funny. Welcome to LearnScope - PowerPoint Slides, Audio, Pictures. 2 Workshop for practitioners - the eight competencies of online interaction.

Brain-controlled prosthesis nearly as good as one-finger typing. Brain-controlled prostheses sample a few hundred neurons to estimate motor commands that involve millions of neurons. Sampling errors can reduce the precision and speed of thought-controlled keypads. A new technique can analyze this sample and make dozens of corrective adjustments in the blink of an eye to make thought-controlled cursors more precise.

This blog accompanies a quarterly column, Computer Corner,. The column and this blog focus on the intersection of technology and people living with mobility impairments. Sunday, October 23, 2011. Sunday, May 2, 2010.

Monday, September 2, 2013. Brad Duerstock, an associate professor at Purdue Universitys Biomedical Engineering Department, has developed a motorized desk, dubbed the RoboDesk, in the hopes that it can be used by powerchair users to help increase their employment opportunities. Tuesday, July 30, 2013. Braun To Debut Converted Ford Explorer For American Hero.

The process for setting up events is a bit chicken and egg so you have to start somewhere. We only have six and a bit weeks so it will have to work pragmatically rather than most efficiently or elegantly.

Saturday, August 23, 2008. Sparky has been suffering from the dreaded XO keyboard glitch that has seemed to have struck quite a few of the first production batch of the XO-1. The details from OLPC can be found here. Sparky is about to head off on another trip to Bowral, so it was decided to see if the keyboard could be fixed before the trip. The OLPC website now has instructions on how to disassemble. These slivers are about 1mm wide. I used scissors, but a sharp blade I .

ldf files in the system drive. The goal was to move them to a secondary drive that had more than ample space. From reading the Microsoft KnowledgeBase. I realised I would have to detach the database, move the files and reattach the database from the new location.