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She turned, blowing a kiss to me as she left the room. And so ended the first Senior Cyber Society meeting. We had just finished figuring out how to find, save, and send pictures on her iPad. Her granddaughter regularly sent fun messages with pictures and she wanted to know how to reply with the similar images. In just a short time, we were able to open a new way of communicating across...

In an effort to increase accessibility to technology, Do Space and communication experts at the Munroe-Meyer Institute (MMI) have worked together to ensure several high-end communication apps are available to test at Do Space including TouchChat HD, DynaVox Compass, Proloquo2go, Go Talk Now, Assistive Chat, and Verbally. MMI is a federally designated University Center of Excellence for...

The folks over at Make Magazine have written a wonderful article on the difference between the Raspberry Pi and the Arduino. Here's a sample: Here at Make: we see new, ingenious projects from our community every day. Many of these projects are made possible with the use of development boards. However, if you’re new to the whole idea, it can be confusing to parse out the differences between...

Little things can add up to something big. This was the lesson behind “Art Day” at our November 24th Junior Makers meeting. We talked about how small pixels on your computer screen can add up to eye-popping graphics. Armed with a variety of colorful sticky notes, our Makers colored the walls, creating images out of the pixel-like pieces of paper. We also explored stop motion animation,...

Our lives revolve around technology. I work from home as a writer, my 15 year old lives to design apps, my 14 year old socializes at all hours via her phone and my 12 year old engulfs himself in the fantasy world of video games. Our family time could consist only of us urgently staring at our glowing screens if I didn’t do something about it. There had to be a better way! Then I saw that...