Mouth Operated Mouse Tops All in Assistive Technology Challenge
From: Rehab Management - 12/18/2015

3D community MakerBot Thingiverse announces that the design for a Mouth
Operated Mouse has won the Assistive Technology Challenge.

During the Challenge, the Thingiverse community is asked to come up with
designs for people with disabilities and make them available to others. More
than 170 designs were submitted, and the Mouth Operated Mouse, designed by
Tobias Wirtl, topped them all, per a media release from MakerBot.

Wirtl designed the mouse to enable more people with disabilities to use the
Web, and to be inexpensive so that more people can afford it.

The mouse, as designed, moves the computer cursor using a mouthpiece, which
works like a joystick. Pushing the mouthpiece toward the case operates the
right mouse button. The left mouse button is emulated by a sensor that
recognizes when the user sucks air through it. The system is controlled by an
Arduino Pro Micro and can be connected to virtually any PC via USB, the
release explains.

Read the entire article at:
http://www.rehabpub.com/2015/12/mouth-operated-mouse-tops-thingiverse-assistive-technology-challenge

Links:
Thingiverse
http://www.thingiverse.com/

Mouth Operated Mouse
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1090461

Assistive Technology Challenge
http://www.thingiverse.com/glitchpudding/collections/assistivetech