[oats-sig] RE: oats-sig Digest, Vol 33, Issue 6

My old laptop was powered off  my wheelchair batteries. 

One day I was in the pub with my mate, the laptop battery ran out so I linked it up to the wheelchair batteries but I forgot the wheelchair batteries were low on power. I was just about to go home and I saw this old friend.  It would be rude to go home without talking to her. So I had another pint or 2.  I was in a brill mood as Liverpool won and I had a sexy blonde kissing me. I downed my pint and went home with a big smile on my face. I got half way home and my wheelchair  conked out as I had a flat battery. I switched off the chair and waited for afew minutes before I switched it back and I was hoping it would work a bit. Well, it was like having kangaroo juice in my chair, I made 4 feet before I conked out again. Lucky my laptop was still working so I texted Paul (thru my laptop to my phone via bluetooth)  to come and
push me home.

So make sure you have enough charge to get home when you have extra devices running off the same battery.! hehe

Karl
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Simon Judge 
  To: 'OATs Project Special Interest Group' 
  Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 8:04 AM
  Subject: RE: [oats-sig] RE: oats-sig Digest, Vol 33, Issue 6

  That's a clever idea... maybe a pda could be configured to do this?  You could always power such a device off wheelchair batteries to allow it to be always on.

  Don't see why it shouldn't work over wireless?

  There's a Palm WOL program: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake-on-LAN#PalmOS

  Cheers.

  Simon

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  From: oats-sig-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk [mailto:oats-sig-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk] On Behalf Of Tom Nabarro
  Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 8:36 PM
  To: oats-sig at lists.becta.org.uk
  Subject: [oats-sig] RE: oats-sig Digest, Vol 33, Issue 6

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  I have been looking into similar areas, the main issue that keeps coming round for me is that you need to have some device which is constantly on.  One idea is to have a phone or some small device capable of sending either a directed or Magic packet to the network adapter of the aac, which can be configured to listen even in hibernation mode.  I'm not sure this would work over wireless.
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  > Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:48:25 +0100
  > From: "Karl Dean" <headpointer at technowebs.co.uk>
  > Subject: Re: [oats-sig] waking up pc's?
  > To: "OATs Project Special Interest Group"
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  > On my first AAC (light talker) I pressed my head switch to turn on the 
  > machine.
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  > So, I have been looking at ways of waking up my computer from hibernation, 
  > and I can only think one way; to wire a push switch into the one-off switch 
  > of my tablet pc.
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  > Any better ways?
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