The Music Gym have uploaded a guide on how to get Buzz controllers functioning on a PC using JoyToKey. These push buttons come as ridiculously cheap wired versions, or more expensive wireless versions. eBay's probably the cheapest place to find these.
They give some really good tips for mounting these controllers, and for being creative with them too. Love that they've including two of my favourite one-switch accessible activities, Tink and Ambio-mat. Excellent!
Added to the DIY section and discovered at the Accessible GameBase.
I've long rued how little Switch Accessible Art devices and software there are available. Needless to say, I was absolutlely chuffed to bits, when Rob 'OddBob' Fearon offered to create something to help fill this gap a little. He came up with the splendid "Ambiomat"...
"The Ambiomat is an ambient art package designed for use with a single switch. It is an 11×8 canvas designed to produce abstract block artwork that can look decent regardless of your ability to interact."
With the effects turned off, it's a really effective art creation tool. With the special effects turned on, it's also a really effective cause and effect activity.
Step over to "Bagfull of Wrong" for the current version. It's a work in progress as I understand, so if anyone has any suggestions for further development, please let him know. More please other programmers!!
Added to the Switch Accessible Art section.
Help Kidz Learn just keep giving. Brand new is their highly accessible Card Maker, and I like it muchly. It has a beautifully simple interface, including one and two-switch modes. Card types presently include Birthdays, Easter, Halloween and Christmas. It's an experimental on-line activity, and perhaps a work in progress. If you have any suggestions for improvements or other types of cards, do drop them a line.
Over at the same place, they have a basic version of an Atari classic, called Brick Out. It's an excellent game to build tracking skills for users, who will hopefully then be able to move onto more involved games.
Added to the OneSwitch.org.uk Art area.
