{"id":14590,"date":"2016-04-19T09:25:36","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T08:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=14590"},"modified":"2016-04-19T09:25:36","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T08:25:36","slug":"autism-friendly-big-screen-media-player-based-around-a-raspberry-pi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=14590","title":{"rendered":"Autism-friendly big-screen media player based around a Raspberry Pi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/4795431460537871967.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14592\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/4795431460537871967.jpg?resize=560%2C315&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"4795431460537871967\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/4795431460537871967.jpg?w=4000&amp;ssl=1 4000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/4795431460537871967.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/4795431460537871967.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/4795431460537871967.jpg?resize=1024%2C575&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/4795431460537871967.jpg?resize=560%2C315&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/4795431460537871967.jpg?resize=260%2C146&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/4795431460537871967.jpg?resize=160%2C90&amp;ssl=1 160w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/4795431460537871967.jpg?w=1120&amp;ssl=1 1120w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/4795431460537871967.jpg?w=1680&amp;ssl=1 1680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.io\/awall99\">Alain Mauer<\/a>&#8216;s son Scott is autistic, but that doesn&#8217;t mean that he can&#8217;t benefit from the cool stuff technology can do, nor should it! Alain decided that he wanted to set-up a media centre\/player for his son but needed it to be bright and colourful and easy-to-use. There was nothing on the market, so he went big and built the system you can see above. It uses 6 big buttons to enable Scott to choose which cartoon to watch. <a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.io\/project\/11000-scotttv-a-simple-mediaplayer-for-my-autistic-son\" target=\"_blank\">Read more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Scott TV Simple MediaPlayer For My Autistic Son Scott\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hltHZ_ZV4NQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alain Mauer&#8216;s son Scott is autistic, but that doesn&#8217;t mean that he can&#8217;t benefit from the cool stuff technology can do, nor should it! Alain decided that he wanted to set-up a media centre\/player for his son but needed it&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=14590\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[50,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-making","category-media-centre"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Autism-friendly big-screen media player based around a Raspberry Pi - Raspberry Pi Pod<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=14590\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Autism-friendly big-screen media player based around a Raspberry Pi - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Alain Mauer&#8216;s son Scott is autistic, but that doesn&#8217;t mean that he can&#8217;t benefit from the cool stuff technology can do, nor should it! 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