New sensor! Rodolfo Navarro, an ACAT Community member has developed a do it yourself customizable switch system based on the Gemma M0 platform. The system has two types of switches – a push button switch, and an infrared switch that can be used to detect movements like a wink of an eye.

The Assistive Context Aware Toolkit (ACAT) supports a variety of sensors including ACAT Vision (camera based sensor) and most commercially available “off-the-shelf” sensors.

Stephen Hawking is pretty much the reason I'm at Intel. As an intern, I was ecstatic to find out I'd be working on a project to help improve the communication ability of one of the most brilliant minds of our time.