Hanging out
I recently had a chance to hang out with Scott Sands - a fellow blogger with Duchenne - at Sea World. We took some photos together of the seals and sea lions at Pacific Point Preserve. I also wanted to see his new camera setup.
Scott showed me his new Canon Powershot G10. It had some advantages such as being able to use a screen to compose your picture, rather then looking through the small viewfinder, which is hard to do with a limited range of motion. I cannot do that with my current setup. But you lose the ability to change your lenses like with an SLR. If you’d like to get into photography, though, I would highly recommend the Canon PowerShot G10 camera that Scott uses because of the ability to look at the screen.
I guess I should mention my camera setup. I use a Canon Digital Rebel DSLR, with a custom switch and mount, that my brother made me. For more information, please read my past blog about this.
Finding Very Useful: Fellowes Tracker Pointing Input Device / Mouse / Track-ball
I wanted to share with others the benefit of finding a mouse alternative that may be a better shape, size, etc that may suit your needs. For me, I wanted a pointing device that was small and had easy to push buttons. This device is really a special joystick - it’s just that the “joystick” is actually a stubby little thing that your thumb fits nicely on as if it were a trackball. It is a nice flat shape that suite my hands well and allows for normal 2 button mouse tasks. It was originally designed to be used for presentations, etc, but it works great as a normal mouse. See the pictures to get an idea.
Cup Holder for Permobil Wheelchair with Existing Tray Mounting Hardware
I needed a cup holder that would mount on my Permobil Chair-Man 2K. We realized that the OEM tray mounting arms could make great mounting points for many things, including a cup holder. So, we went ahead and built a cup holder that would just slide into the existing tray mounting holes. We hacked off the end from a broken cymbal stand that happened to be the right diameter pipe to snuggly fit inside the tray mounting hole. If we didn’t have random junk and misc scrap to pick from, we could have bought a new pipe or some bar stock that would fit. For the cup holder element, we used a peice from an old cup holder. All we had to do was drill the pipe and screw on the holder. Now we’ve got a simple cup holder that slides directly onto the wheelchair. Now, none of this would make life any easier if it weren’t for the Hummingbird Sipper straws that I found and so dearly love! For more info about the staws, see the post on that.
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