Background: I am an ASIC design services consultant. Not exactly the best area to be in RIGHT NOW, but...
There's no such thing as a "20 hour project".
Even if you think there is only 20 hours of coding to be done on the project, there is:
Proposal preparation
Requirements analysis
System Specification
Statement of Work
Detailed Design
the coding
End-User Documentation
Training
Warranty and Maintenance
ongoing project management overhead
Even if you think it's a simple project, the customer may not be sure of what he wants, or may not have communicated the requirements properly. You really do need to go through all this to ensure that the final system delivered actually meets the customer's needs. By the time all of the above is done PROFESSIONALLY, the 20 hours has ballooned to over 100 hours.
Don't be afraid to bid real rates, either. If you're worth US$80-100/hour, bid it! (The company I work for bids MUCH higher. But that's chip design, not web design.) If you're independent and have low overhead, then you have a lot of negotiating room if the customer otherwise likes your approach.
I'm not sure what visual defects are associated with keratoconus, but if you need magnification, look into hardware devices that do this.
Back in 1990-91, I had a co-worker who had no central vision whatsoever. He had a special setup: a special card that magnified the image on his monitor. The output of a CGA card (remember this is 1990) went into the magnifier card, and the output of the magnifier card went to the monitor. The system included a document camera, which could display a magnified image of whatever document was placed under it, on the monitor.
He used two mice on the computer - one for the normal use of a mouse, and another mouse to control the magnification and panning of the hardware card. (Configuring the IRQs for the two mice, serial port, parallel printer, and two video cards was a bitch. Even more so to get Windows 3.0 to run in CGA!)
Today, of course, this system would need to be modernized - a minimum of 1024x768 is required for business, and any magnifier card would need to cope with the increased video bandwidth.
I can't remember what the system was called. Being over 10 years old, it's likely no longer in production in a usable form anyway. However, similar systems may exist. I would do a web search for speciality computer equipment for the visually impaired.
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There's no such thing as a "20 hour project".
Even if you think there is only 20 hours of coding to be done on the project, there is:
- Proposal preparation
- Requirements analysis
- System Specification
- Statement of Work
- Detailed Design
- the coding
- End-User Documentation
- Training
- Warranty and Maintenance
- ongoing project management overhead
Even if you think it's a simple project, the customer may not be sure of what he wants, or may not have communicated the requirements properly. You really do need to go through all this to ensure that the final system delivered actually meets the customer's needs. By the time all of the above is done PROFESSIONALLY, the 20 hours has ballooned to over 100 hours.Don't be afraid to bid real rates, either. If you're worth US$80-100/hour, bid it! (The company I work for bids MUCH higher. But that's chip design, not web design.) If you're independent and have low overhead, then you have a lot of negotiating room if the customer otherwise likes your approach.
No, they're likely tapping the angular momentum imparted to the CD by the motor.
Very brief - the earth moved once or twice. For a moment, I thought Sheila Copps had an orgasm.
Back in 1990-91, I had a co-worker who had no central vision whatsoever. He had a special setup: a special card that magnified the image on his monitor. The output of a CGA card (remember this is 1990) went into the magnifier card, and the output of the magnifier card went to the monitor. The system included a document camera, which could display a magnified image of whatever document was placed under it, on the monitor.
He used two mice on the computer - one for the normal use of a mouse, and another mouse to control the magnification and panning of the hardware card. (Configuring the IRQs for the two mice, serial port, parallel printer, and two video cards was a bitch. Even more so to get Windows 3.0 to run in CGA!)
Today, of course, this system would need to be modernized - a minimum of 1024x768 is required for business, and any magnifier card would need to cope with the increased video bandwidth.
I can't remember what the system was called. Being over 10 years old, it's likely no longer in production in a usable form anyway. However, similar systems may exist. I would do a web search for speciality computer equipment for the visually impaired.