Tony Atkins

I'm a nerd and bon vivant. I live and work in Amsterdam.

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@Dzhena https://t.co/d43s2Ot11e

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@Dzhena I thought you might enjoy this. If you're short on time, hit the slides at the chapter stops and the summaries near the end. Really good overview of a range of barriers and strategies for including people in gaming experiences.

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I wrote a proposal for a new plugin early this year, to make it possible to control a web browser with a game pad. I was fortunate to have a great student spend the Google Summer of Code working to build it. It's out now on the Chrome Web Store:

https://t.co/NDH9evOibj

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The laser cutting company I use is making 10,000 face shields for a local hospital and sneeze guards for stores.

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An Adult’s Guide to Social Skills, for Those Who Were Never Taught https://t.co/wSLiO3bVFW

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DIY wheelchair ramps built from legos: https://t.co/xqIAQixp1y

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Such a great idea,

https://t.co/Xflqk0NNED

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A friend shared this old, but really entertaining article on trying to find out where a "free" watch came from.

https://t.co/rtppGQRYdn

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I was aware of the practise of using tattoos to cover scars, but hadn't realised quite how far paramedical tattoos had come. Pretty amazing.

https://t.co/gioYeXlmtR

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An amazing effort to convert the electrical inputs from a prosthesis to control modular synthesizers.

https://t.co/PhPRE4rLd6

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Here's a knitted visualisation of an infant's sleep pattern for the first year of life. Love the maker, data, and programming skills on display.

https://t.co/CDg5a8KZT3

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BBC News - How Nicaragua's deaf children invented a new sign language https://t.co/6jzXLWI8jL

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The Xbox Adaptive controller is amazing in its own right, but it's also a key starting point for work like this, that adapts wheelchair controls to play games:

https://t.co/68EgYPUfYR

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Very cool artwork and even cooler fabrication process.

https://t.co/sKBCDhafy1

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BBC News - The Nigerian blind mechanic using touch to make repairs https://t.co/Qoxrw6SZXr

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Navigating disability in the kitchen is all about finding the right adaptations https://t.co/njwLZr8lOu

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The new Logitech Adaptive Gaming Kit makes it easy to really make use of the flexibility of the Xbox Adaptive controller:

https://t.co/YA288a58bs

It has a range of button sizes and sensitivity, and for a small fraction of the price of AT switches. Just great.