Comments on: CamKeys is a simple camera-based alternative keyboard

By: Niall Brown

Niall Brown — Fri, 01 May 2009 16:46:33 +0000

Hey Gary, Love what you are doing here. I run a couple of other geeky tech projects for individuals who have disabilities called creativeexpressionsweb.ca for mobility related communication issues and deafblindresources.ca for tech and strategies related to accessing information for those with combined vision and hearing loss. I really think CamKeys is a vitally important tool but as only a basic Windows/Ubuntu user I’m unsure how to get it up and running from source. Has there been any progress towards an installer for either OS? Keep up the amazing work! All of your work is really exciting.

By: atool enables DDR pad or webcam input — Gary Bishop

atool enables DDR pad or webcam input — Gary Bishop — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:47:26 +0000

[...] is an extension to our previous CamKeys project. Like CamKeys, atool allows keyboard input based on a cheap webcam. Atool adds DDR pads (or [...]

By: Mozilla Foundation grants and related expenditures for 2007 « Frank Hecker

Mozilla Foundation grants and related expenditures for 2007 « Frank Hecker — Wed, 28 May 2008 22:11:45 +0000

[...] Research into enabling commodity webcams to be used as simple switch input devices (e.g., by tracking users’ head or hand movements), for example in conjunction with software like Jambu (University of North Carolina). For more information see Gary Bishop’s blog post on CamKey. [...]

By: Nu geld lenen

Nu geld lenen — Thu, 01 May 2008 15:02:05 +0000

Thanks for the article, would love to read some more personal reactions from people with experience with CamKeys though.

By: geld lenen

geld lenen — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:58:55 +0000

Somebody other experiences yet?
I just installed another trail version on my clean laptop (that is why I came here back haha) and look for some other experiences. Still doubting to buy

Best regards,

GL
http://www.lening-geld-lenen.nl

The Netherlands

By: gb

gb — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 20:43:15 +0000

I haven’t seen it. Thanks for the pointer.

By: Geld Lenen

Geld Lenen — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 20:40:37 +0000

Anybody having more experiences with EvoCam? I now have a 15 day trial, pretty impressive program!

GL
http://geld-lenen.welij.nl

The Netherlands

By: Ricky Buchanan

Ricky Buchanan — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 09:51:24 +0000

I tried to get this working on Mac OS X but couldn’t – not sure if it’s my totally non-existent Python ability or because of the different way cameras are handled.

Anyway, I came across EvoCam today -http://www.evological.com/evocam.html

It’s not free but it’s only US$25 with a 15 day free demo period so it’s not hugely expensive either. And it lets you set unlimited “motion sensitive” areas on the picture and (I think) fire off applescripts when it finds motion, and with AppleScripts you can emulate keys being pressed trivially.

I hope you don’t mind me leaving these links to non-free resources in your coments, Gary? I just want people to know about *affordable* access tech alternatives where they exist, especially for those people who don’t have the tech ability to hack up the wonderful open source stuff you write about.

Ricky Buchanan
ATMac – http://atmac.org/ – Assistive Technology for Mac OS X Users

By: gb

gb — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:40:03 +0000

Not yet but that is a good idea. After Maze Day, I’ll put something up.

By: Ernestas

Ernestas — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:38:24 +0000

Do you have any (video/youtube/…) demo regarding this tool ?