I’m Writing this using a program And while its not perfect its pretty damn good . I’ve never used it before today and already feal fairly confident with it . It has a huge amount of functionality it can do some basic word prediction, and punctuation. It’s controlled through mouse movements and click to start…

Another delve into the annals of history; this time we travel back to ancient Greece and the island of Kos. In the year 460 BCE the father of medicine Hippocrates is born. Hippocrates learned his craft from his father and grandfather and would go on to revolutionise medicine in the ancient world, but not without…

I’ll get back to the tech stuff soon going to do a piece on the Pilot X at some point, but I was reading a fascinating article on my way into London about the 10th man which got me thinking, in a time when healthcare departments are often over stretched and under pressure (pushing down…

With 3d printers becoming cheaper and better quality, is it time for all accessible equipment providing departments to get a couple of these little buggers and just go nuts on designing their own in house equipment? Well lets unpack some arguments for and against this. We will start with the bad news first (rip that…

Cast your minds back if you will to late stages of 2018, long before the cost of living crisis or Covid-19, life was pretty good around this time. The absolute geniuses at xbox were levelling up the world of gaming with their accessible game pad; released in September 2018 the Xbox Adaptive Controller was, in…

This blog’s getting less and less professional by the minute. The title alludes to the two parts of my engineering brain that are at constant odds with each other. The E Lion Mask side that thinks every new bit of tech is going to be the one that can solve my patients problems for ever…

Captions log star date 76466.2 currently inhabiting earth. Have eaten far to much food and have spent most of the time in a sedentary position. This along with a substantial period of time away from work has given me time to reflect on my journey into my current career (bare with me there’s a point…

Ah Arduino you absolute little beauty what would I do without you, not have got a 2.1 in my first degree that’s for sure. I love Arduino, I think it’s such a fantastic system to work with especially for prototyping projects. In my time working in clinical engineering for one reason or another I ended…

The Azeron Cyborg is a gaming controller. I know what you’re thinking, why are you looking at gaming controllers when you’re talking about accessible tech? Well, the thing about gaming controllers is, in a broad sweeping statement, that they are designed to handle multiple inputs and multiple outputs (mimo) as efficiently as possible, and the…

Let’s get right to it, my delve into mental health and teaching has led my career path off on a bit of a tangent into rehabilitation engineering which is a fantastic and fascinating way to spend my time. I have the joy of working for the NHS across several services; wheelchair and posture; environmental access…