An overview of workshops, online resources, products, and activities to support the empowerment of blind makers at home, at school, and at work.
Blind maker update
Chancy fleet
Josh Miele
Ken perry
No PowerPoint just see if you can follow along
Free building
Free mentorship
Why do makering?
Blind and VI are in school and mainstreamed.
Allow participation and inclusion to learn by building
Blind and sighted kids Learn to interact with each other.
Motivation other kids doing it
You can make your own accessibility stuff
Arduino stuff? https://www.arduino.cc/
Circuit descriptions are better than diagram. Bob gunderson 60’s
How to make a sensor to tell when my brother comes in the room
Making buttons that do stuff
Continuity tester
Chancy doing workshops Arduino learn to wire.
Talkingbooks.nypl.org
Project 1
Making a book of tactile schematics (via Dimensions) in spring to go with arduino stuff.
Things that are visual are just needing to be represented spatially.
Project 2
Openscad for 3D printing
Fully accessible with NVDA
With graffiti full page display
Braille study- Build a 3D print Braille cells
origami workshop
Blarbl@blogspot.com blog from Josh
Babammh meetup https://groups.io/g/babamm
Raspberry pie on Lenox or windows
RaspberryVI.org
Hardware platform
Adafruit great resources for making
Go to regular spaces
Ask the lighthouse for blind arduino map
Snapino snap together vs soldering