Braille Game Ideas
| tags: blind, enabling technology, ideas
I think I see how to make the
| tags: blind, enabling technology, ideas
I think I see how to make the
| tags: blind
This year Maze Day will be 28 April 2011 from 9 till 2 in Sitterson Hall on the UNC Chapel Hill Campus.
| tags: sound, blind, javascript, ideas
Ideas for browser-based games using spatial sound for children who are visually impaired.
| tags: python, sound, javascript, blind
Statial ("3D") sound greatly enhances games for children who are visually impaired but the audio node in HTML5 doesn't even support panning left and right much less the time delay and filtering of true spatial audio. This post describes a python script I hacked to transform sound files so that they appear to originate from points surrounding the listener.
| tags: python, programming
A sudden change in my teaching assignment to teaching Comp116 Introduction to Scientific Programming in 2 days resulted in a frantic search for Python programming tools that work the same across Windows, OS X, and Linux. The Enthought Python Distribution looks like a really good turn-key solution to having Python + Numpy + Matplotlib easily working on all three but we also need an editor.
| tags: python, random, programming
The more I cut back on broadcast news, the happier I become. I first started during the recent election season when the political ads were insane. Then I got fed up with the amateur hour over at WRAL and switched to listening to Jazz with Bob Parlocha on WNCU in the mornings. I took another step today by automatically muting WNCU's stream at the top of each hour when they play NPR news.
I get my news reading the paper and the web where I get to choose what I read. According to a recent Pew Research Report this puts me in with the young hip consumers of news.
I recommend taking a break from the talking heads, you'll be happier for it.
| tags: random, programming
I tried Google custom search for my updated site but I was unhappy with the control I had over what got indexed, so I decided to implement my own.
A quick search revealed the awesome Whoosh search library. It is very well documented and super easy to use.
| tags: random, programming
Mike Pirnat's post Why I Switched to Blogofile inspired me to give Blogofile a look. The nice documentation and especially the migration strategy from Wordpress inspired me to give it a try.
Now after about 3 days of reading and enjoyable hacking, I've got my site converted with a new theme and color scheme. I'm impressed at how straightforward the conversion has been. I hacked up the wordpress2blogofile.py script to modify the paths (I wanted to change my permalinks) and to insert paragraph tags into the extracted text.
| tags: recipes
Modified version of Sourdough Raisin Walnut Bread
| tags: python, json, javascript, programming
Major browsers insist on producing illegal json like
{ 'foo': undefined }
when objects contain an undefined value. It was pretty simple to monkey patch the json module to handle this case. I put the code on gist and include it here: