How do you help paralyzed people to make their creavity going out? The people from Free Art and Technology, Graffiti Research Lab, OpenFrameworks and Ebeling Group has made a low-cost, opensource eye-tracking system and its name is Eyewriter. A great project in all ways, helping, open, affordable and expandible. I wish all the next projects will be like this one!
Members of Free Art and Technology (FAT), OpenFrameworks, the Graffiti Research Lab, and The Ebeling Group communities have teamed-up with a legendary LA graffiti writer, publisher and activist, named Tony Quan, aka TEMPTONE. Tony was diagnosed with ALS in 2003, a disease which has left him almost completely physically paralyzed… except for his eyes. This international team is working together to create a low-cost, open source eye-tracking system that will allow ALS patients to draw using just their eyes. The long-term goal is to create a professional/social network of software developers, hardware hackers, urban projection artists and ALS patients from around the world who are using local materials and open source research to creatively connect and make eye art.
In their website is plenty of information to diy googles and all the clues to develop and expand the application.
