We are proud to announce that our brand new FLipPad device was awarded with one of the Grand Prizes of the AAOIC challenge. Topic of this challenge was the creation of affordable solutions for people with disabilities. Together with our … Continued
YouTube – probably the world’s largest collection of videos of all topics. Music and entertainment, tutorial videos, live broadcasts or repair instructions – everything can be found there. For many people YouTube became a daily companion. Reasons enough to ask … Continued
Practical experience with our users has shown: it’s important to have flexible possibilities to handle a system since every person and every form of disability is very different. Therefore we fundamentally improved and extended the input possibilities for AsTeRICS Grid. … Continued
In the past, we used laser-cut acrylic cases. A very cheap laser cutter was sufficient. Today, more and more people and hackerspaces have 3D printers. We also have our Prusa i3, so we decided to design a new case for … Continued
Last week I stumbled upon a great resource for open source AAC symbols: https://www.opensymbols.org/ It collects open source symbols dedicated to AAC from various sources and offers a search interface for it. Since it also offers an open API, this … Continued
Since some time we are working with Christian, an ALS-Patient, on a solution for computer control. Unfortunately his muscels are already so weak that speaking and independent breathing isn’t possible anymore. Therefore also using a normal mouse or keyboard of … Continued
AsTeRICS Grid, our free open-source application for alternative and augmented communication (AAC), is released regularly including new features or bugfixes. Therefore it’s difficult to write a blog entry about “the” new AsTeRICS Grid release. However, I think we’ve come to … Continued
Based on the Wordpress Template (created by Jaqueline Pelzer) and much hard work by our members we have a web site. A big thanks to everybody for this effort!
Chris Veigl and Benjamin Aigner were invited to the Swatantra conference in Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala, India) to present our open-source Assistive Technology. The Swantantra conference is dedicated to all aspects of free and open hard- / software. Additionally to the talk at … Continued
During a 7-days journey through Kenya, two members of the AsTeRICS Academy Team visited the MERU University of Science and Technology (MUST) and several special schools and small homes for children with disability in Kenya. Together with the academic partners at … Continued