[Hackability] hey is this list active anymore?

[Romy@snowyla]

Cool! I dug out drawings I made with john b from Sudoroom! 
He repairs wheelchairs for a living & when he had me illustrate different issues I was closer to "getting it" 

This is a cool Noisebridge group would love to Learn from everyone ! 



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> On Apr 26, 2015, at 5:09 PM, Liz Henry <lizhenry at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I'm still around, not hacking much of anything, but grooving on my new scooter -- a Travel Scoot Jr. Deluxe. It's been going strong since last June with no problems. I have mostly been tricking it out with bike accessories. 
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> We had a short meetup a few months ago where we tried out a WHILL chair provided for a demo.  Zach showed off some of the power converter mods on his scooter. 
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> If anyone wants to co-admin the list, let me know and I can add you to the admin or moderation list. It is a standard Mailmain list interface run on a Noisebridge server. 
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> - Liz
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>> On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 7:59 PM, Romy Ilano <romy at snowyla.com> wrote:
>> I enjoyed talking to people on here. Breaking my ankle and getting around in SF opened my eyes to a lot of issues! 
>> 
>> A lot of the accessibility APIs are so easy to implement on mobile phones nowadays. Apple and I think Google are doing a cool job - I'm sure there are open source projects.
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>> Even if we don't have time to do these projects every day they are pretty cool. i think a lot of early PhD work on location based technology came up with scenarios around not just military work but also tools to help the disabled.
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>> So in a way you can say that helping "vision impaired/hearing impaired" (I don't know the correct terms) people were major things that pushed innovation in tech forward.
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>> Wasn't the guy who invented the digital text OCR technology concerned only about helping blind people read first?
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>> it is blind and deaf people who are part of the tech revolution!
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>> Romy Ilano
>> romy at snowyla.com
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