PLUG January BaB meeting, Saturday 17th January 2015, from 13:00 to 18:00.
http://www.broadoaksocialclub.net/where.html
We shall have our usual bring a box meeting. Bring a 'box', bring a notebook,
bring anything that might run Linux, or just bring yourself and enjoy
socialising/learning/teaching or simply chilling out! Bring any Linux or
Open Source problems, come to have help installing Linux or simply to pick up
installation media.
We also have a speaker for this meeting, Mike Ray.
Mike has been visually impaired all his life, but is now totally blind. He
continues to use and program computers. He will show us how he writes code,
how he "reads" things, what he needs to use a computer fully. He will be
showing us his equipment, including a braille monitor/keyboard.
Mike's passion is the Raspberry Pi and all her relatives - Banana Pi, Arduino.
If it is tiny and programmable, then Mike finds it irresistible.
He has a website called Raspberry VI (VI for visually impaired)
www.raspberryvi.org/
which is going from strength to strength.
The Raspberry Pi as originally constituted had inadequate audio for someone
blind, who relied totally on sound to communicate. Many would have given up.
Mike wrote his own code to remedy the problem and can now use his Raspberry
Pi. He will be telling us about this.
See you there!
Lisi
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