Hello from up North

[Dominic]

Hi,

I just found this forum and thought I would say hello before jumping in with some questions. My son has cerebral palsy and uses a chair. He is just starting to use a power chair at school that uses a single switch scanning system via an R-NET OMNI lcd controller (the switch is hand held, like an old school slide advancer). As you can imagine, it takes him a while to manoeuvre. He can't keep his arms down or bring his hands together to use a joystick, but at home he plays complex games on his PS3 via a Frag FX splitfish evolution controller (it's like a ps3 gamepad split into 2 parts). SO, I am wondering if it might be possible to set up some sort of palm/hand held control system (either via existing equipment or DIY) with a joypad or micro joystick he can move with his thumb.

Anyway. I'll get to that later. For now I am just over the moon to see that this support network exists!

Hello from up north in the UK.

[rover220]

http://www.sunrisemedical.com/power-whe ... ivestation

you might consider this. cracking peice of kit. will plug straight into the omni but will need programming to work correctly.

[Dominic]

Hey Rover,

Thanks for this, yes it looks really useful and it gave me a lot of hope! But the lad can't bring his hands together and this device looks hard wired, the weird PS controller he uses is wireless, it looks like this:



To be able to use the same controller would be amazing, but I'm guessing most likely impossible.. He tends to use the left one as a mouse on a pc at school (using Joytokey, to make it behave like a mouse) with a virtual keyboard to do his school work.

I'm wondering if there is a way to use something like a wii nunchuck joystick, which would be the perfect controller for him:



Anyway, thanks!

[SteveO]

Hi Dominic, I too am from up North (Manchester) welcome. I was just reading another thread on here, then came across yours. I'm not sure if this is suitable or not but they do smaller versions with less force involved and is for use with one hand and can be used with r-net omni. http://www.mo-vis.com/src/Frontend/File ... -round.pdf
Cheers
SteveO