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Make Life Accessible: Winners Announcement

jwatson — Tue, 23 Aug 2016 16:07:21 GMT

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Congratulations to the winners podium of element14's Design Challenge - Make Life Accessible!

Thanks to our challengers for their dedication, and also to our judges from NXP, Designability and Special Effect.

GRAND PRIZE WINNER

Clear Walk - Moving Mirrors

by dougw, of Canada. dougw

Doug clearly executed the challenge brief well and generated a lot of interest for the fully functional solar-powered Clear Walk system with mirrors, capable of redirecting sunlight anywhere it is needed under remote control.

His challenge was to invent something that could reduce the extraordinarily high number of injury-related deaths among seniors in Canada caused by falls. Clear Walk can be used on an icy walkway or driveway that needs to be cleared, or on indoor plants (redirecting sunlight through a window), or directed over a laundry line. Final Demo >

Look what Doug has won!

Clear Walk Build featured on an episode of The Ben Heck Show - Dates and Links Coming Later in 2016.

NXP HVP-MC3PH: High-Voltage Development Platform
Oculus Rift
Oculus Touch Controller
GoPro Hero 4 Black

RUNNER UP

ELapShelf

by rsc, of the USA. rsc

Scott designed a motorised articulating table top using sensors that can detect the credentials of the sitter and move in and out accordingly.

His challenge was to invent an affordable, multi-functional home automation mobility aid. The table top can be mounted on a bed headboard or wheelchair for drawing, laptop stand, reading, or other activity that requires a small table. Final Demo>

Look what Scott has won!

Oculus Rift
Oculus Touch Controller

THIRD PLACE

EyePrints

by amgalbu, of Italy. amgalbu

Ambrogio tackled the challenge brief in a very innovative way.

His challenge was to give those less able the opportunity to communicate through visual arts, vis-à-vis drawing. This project comprised an eye tracking device and a robot to draw on a drawing board. Ambrogio's final blog was exemplary, including a table of contents to easily follow his build from concept to design. Final Demo >

Look what Ambrogio has won!

GoPro Hero Session

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Make Life Accessible - Enabling Freedom with Motor Control: The Judges (now in session)

jwatson — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 08:35:08 GMT

Current Revision posted to Documents by jwatson on 7/6/2016 8:35:08 AM

Make Life Accessible Design Challenge
About This Challenge	Example Project	Overview Video
The Kit	Terms and Conditions	The Prizes

We are delighted to welcome aboard four organisations as resident subject matter experts for the Make Life Accessible Design Challenge.

Don't forget, please feel free to reach out to our Judges and other members with any questions (see @mention names below)!

Designability, a panel of 5 led by Director, Nigel Harris
NXP, our chief product sponsor, Mark Houston
Special Effect's Gaming Technical Specialist, Barrie Ellis
Ben Heckendorn, host of element14's The Ben Heck Show

Designability is a charity with a passion for creating life-changing assistive technologies, based in the UK, but working with clinicians and leading organisations globally, we are a team of engineering and design experts who conduct original research and develop commercial products that meet the needs of people with a disability or long-term health condition.

At Designability we aim to develop great new products that will enable people with disabilities and health problems to fulfil their full potential. We create great looking, easy-to-use products that go beyond basic functionality. And we partner with industry to help as many people as we can – we’ve transformed over 250,000 lives in the last 48 years.

We advocate better technology for everyone. And believe inclusive design is the only way forward. So we work with end-users, carers and health professionals to help us understand the problem, find a solution and test it in real life situations.

There are many challenges around the home for many people with physical or cognitive disabilities. But there is some great technology out there, which can be developed into smart solutions. We are very pleased to be able to support the
Element 14 Make Life Accessible challenge and are really looking forward to seeing some new and exciting designs!

www.designability.org.uk

Professor Nigel Harris nigeldavidharris

Director and Head of Research at Designability, contributing to Medical Engineering and Assistive Technology work programs.

Registered Clinical Scientist, Fellow of the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine and Honorary Chair at the Department of Health at the University of Bath, UK.

PhD in Applications of Electrical Impedance Tomography in Respiratory Medicine. BSc Biophysical Science.

Expertise and interests

Rehabilitation research (Stroke and Acquired Brain Injury)
Assisted living technology for people living with Cognitive Impairments
Physiological measurement and ambulatory monitoring
Technology transfer and innovation tools

Dr Tim Adlam fi_designability

Head of Mechanical Engineering, Designability

Leads and develops our research in mechanical engineering. As a clinical scientist he also works with the design team on new products under development.

PhD in ‘The design of compliant seating for children with severe whole body extensor spasms’. MSc Biomedical Engineering. CEng Chartered Engineer.

Expertise and interests

Research grant development and prototyping
User evaluation and user centred design
Rehabilitation and biomedical engineering
Engineering for Cerebral palsy, Dementia, Restricted growth, Dynamic seating, Smart home technology

Praminda Caleb-Solly praminda

Head of Electronics & Computer Systems, Associate Professor of Robotics & Autonomous Systems, Designability

Praminda leads and develops our research in electronics and computing. She is also Associate Professor in Independent Living Systems at the University of the West of England (UWE) and theme leader for Assisted Living in
the Bristol Robotics Laboratory.

PhD in Interactive Evolutionary Algorithms for Configuring Machine Vision Systems. MSc Biomedical Instrumentation Engineering. BEng Electronic Systems Engineering

Expertise and interests

User experience design and human-robot interaction for assistive robots
Machine learning and adaptive computing (decision support systems and data mining) for medical signal processing
Machine vision for pathology and industrial inspection
Interactive evolution for algorithm optimisation

Nina Evans nina_designability

Research Occupational Therapist, Designability
Nina Evans is a Research Occupational Therapist specialising in Assistive Technology. She has brought her experience as a Community OT to Designability research projects including smart home technology and SomnIA Sleep in Aging. Many projects have created new products including the Blys Tray, Day Clock and One Button Radio. Her interests lay in how inclusive product design can contribute to improving quality of life and in the development and evaluation of Wizzybug, which was designed as a child friendly first experience of powered mobility for young children.

Expertise and interests

Clinical trials with end-users
The outcomes of assistive technology provision and the evidence base for assistive technology
Progressing projects from initial consultation to completion
Working in partnership with users, carers and professionals

Keir Haines keirhaines

Senior Product Designer, Designability

Keir is involved in design throughout the organisation, including Designability’s new product development projects and delivering consultancy design and user engagement services to external clients who are developing their own products. He has a real passion for healthcare products that look good, are usable and that deliver a positive user experience.

Expertise and interests

Design research activities (trends, emerging technology and market appraisal)
Industrial design styling and human factors
Rapid prototyping processes and techniques
3D computer aided design and simulation

Mark Houston, NXP

Mark Houston is the Global Product Manager for NXP’s microcontroller portfolio of motor control and power control solutions. With more than 15 years of experience in microcontrollers – the majority of those focused on motor control – he has lead the development of the of the new Kinetis V series MCU portfolio for NXP. His focus is to bring solutions to market that dramatically simplify motor control application development. He holds a Master’s degree in Computing and a Bachelorof Science degree in Electronic Systems.

Barrie Ellis, Accessibility Technical Specialist, Special Effect specialeffect-(barrie)

www.specialeffect.org.uk

SpecialEffect is a charity focussed on removing barriers from people who want to play games. By helping to level the playing field, they're bringing families and friends together and having a profoundly positive impact on therapy, confidence, rehabilitation and/or simple pure enjoyment.

Barrie Ellis has been involved with SpecialEffect since 2007 where he was welcomed by director Mick Donegan to post reviews on their early site. Soon after, he adapted and collated SpecialEffect's first road show accessible gaming stations and trained early volunteers and staff in how to use them. Barrie, like many others, has a passion for making the world a fairer and more accessible place, and resides in the world of accessible gaming and leisure technology because it's fun there.

"My electronics skills are rudimentary, but my knowledge of accessible leisure and video gaming is very broad with fingers in many pies. Feel free to get in touch if you have any questions around accessible leisure if you are worried about re-inventing the wheel, if you'd just like a sounding-board, or anything else in this field. I am part-time at SpecialEffect as their Technical Specialist (Mondays and Fridays), but will endeavour to get back to everyone who reaches out as soon as I possibly can. Good luck, and good on you!"

Barrie's Twitter and Blog: https://twitter.com/oneswitch / http://switchgaming.blogspot.co.uk/

Ben Heck makerkaren

A self-taught hacker, modder and engineer, Benjamin Heckendorn – better known as Ben Heck – is host of element14’s The Ben Heck Show, a weekly web series in which Ben tackles fun and interesting projects across a wide range of topics –from 3D printing and gaming to drones and robots.

Make Life Accessible - Enabling Freedom with Motor Control: The Prizes

element14Dave — Fri, 06 May 2016 18:13:10 GMT

Current Revision posted to Documents by element14Dave on 5/6/2016 6:13:10 PM

Make Life Accessible Design Challenge
About this Challenge	Example Project	Overview Video
The Kit	Terms and Conditions	The Judges

Grand Prize Includes:
	The winning project featured on an upcoming episode of The Ben Heck Show Have you ever wanted to be on The Ben Heck Show? Well, now is your chance to show off your winning project to hundreds of thousands of people from across the world!
	NXP HVP-MC3PHHVP-MC3PH High-Voltage Development Platform Take your design to the next level with the NXP High Voltage Development Platform.
	Oculus Rift Immerse your senses with the cutting edge VR platform.
	Oculus Touch Controller Manipulate objects in the virtual environment with ground breaking precision.
	GoPro Hero 4 Black Simply the highest performing GoPro there is!

Second Prize Includes:

Oculus Rift

Immerse your senses with the cutting edge VR platform.

Oculus Touch Controller

Manipulate objects in the virtual environment with ground breaking precision.

Third Prize Include:

GoPro Hero Session

Squeezing the power of GoPro into the smallest, lightest and most convenient camera yet.

All Challengers who complete this project will receive:

NHT Superbuds

In ear monitors will let you listen to you favorite song, or tune in to an upcoming webinar. These buds are small, but mighty!

There will be 15 Challengers selected to receive a FREE official Maker Life Accessible Kit. Below you will find more information on what’s in The Kit – a variety of components and peripherals for you to sink your soldering iron in to and connect to the NXP FRDM-KV31 FRDM-KV31 and FRDM-MC-LVPMSM.FRDM-MC-LVPMSM.

DISCLAIMER:

GoPro, NHT, and Oculus are all Trademarks owned by their respective manufacturers/brands. These companies are in no way involved in the Design Challenge and their products featured on this page is not an endorsement or sponsorship. In the event that any of these products is not available at the time of winner’s announcement, or if a prize is not eligible to be shipped to the physical location of the winner, element14 will make a good faith effort to substitute with a product of similar scope and value, at its own discretion. Please see the Terms and Conditions.

Tags: inclusive_technology, electronic, entertainment, androids, aids, accessible, augmentative_and_alternative_communication, accessible:, security, assistive_domotics, energy_conservation, the, _technology, one_button_gaming, robots, assistive, life, bionic_limbs, elderly_disabled_users, make, cybernetics, mobility, prizes, Design, smart_technology, home_automation, smart, challenge, motor_control, Accessibility, limbs, aac, prosthetics, 3d_printed, about

Make Life Accessible - Enabling Freedom with Motor Control: About This Challenge

element14Dave — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 10:16:19 GMT

Current Revision posted to Documents by element14Dave on 3/21/2016 10:16:19 AM

Make Life Accessible Design Challenge
The Prizes	Example Project	Overview Video
The Kit	Terms and Conditions	The Judges

Welcome to element14’s first Grand Design Challenge of 2016!

Enter your design project by 4th March 23:59GMT and be in with a chance of being selected as a sponsored challenger receiving the Official Challenger Kit free of charge!

15 of the most interesting project concepts will be selected by the official judging panel. Whether you receive the Challenger Kit or decide to enter on your own, you will still win atleast one fabulous prize for completing a project. Please see full Terms & Conditions.

Reminders:

Final challenge end date to submit your complete project is 6th June 2016. Projects posted after this date will not be eligible for prizes.
All winners will be announced on 21st June 2016

Motor control is central to most mobility solutions and this global grand challenge is designed to let you explore how tech can help hundreds of millions of people around the world who may have their mobility restricted by age-related illnesses or disabilities.

More than 1 billion people in the world have some form of disability. This corresponds to about 15% of the world's population. Between 110-190 million people have very significant physical restrictions on their freedom.

Further, with a rapidly aging population already in excess of 840 million and individuals mortality rates increasing, we all face an increasing likelihood of life changing challenges in later years.

There is now also a huge swing towards independent living than ever before with about three quarters of older people living alone at some point, so more home automation products are clearly needed to help people stay mobile at home.

We’re looking for motor control inspired solutions that will bring benefits to people who are disabled or considered vulnerable, enabling them to live well with their conditions as a result of your solution; remaining independent, confident, active, safe and socially involved.

You must make something that could truly improve another person’s quality of life or your own. However, if you choose to design a solution for someone else, please ensure you ask full permission for their involvement in advance.

We hope to select 15 official challengers across varied solutions, submitted in the first month of launching this challenge, who will set the pace and share their project blogs and progress. There are so many design possibilities in the field of motor control and ways to approach this challenge such as:

Affordable and/or aesthetically pleasing prosthetics for young, old, athletes, motorcyclists, and those injured in action – of course, feel free to go beyond prosthetics!
Assistive domotics, a field of home automation tailored towards elderly and disabled users – such as touch screens or direct eye controlled mobility, security, entertainment, and energy conservation
Smart thought-controlled bionic limbs
All-terrain mobility transportation or adapted vehicles for amputees
AAC/Augmentative and Alternative Communication to help people who find it hard to communicate by speech or writing, but can through gestures, signing, symbols, word boards, communication boards and books, as well as Voice Output Communication Aids (VOCAs)
One button gaming – there are segments of would-be gamers effectively locked out by color blindness and physical ability
...or infact anything at all that you can prove will make a positive difference to people's mobility

So what might a Make Life Accessible project look like?

How about...

Building a bionic arm for even less than $250 as this remarkable amputee did?
Making cool superhero character limbs like Limbitless Solutions have to help children better accept life using electronic prosthetics? They used 3D printing to create cheap, electronic prosthetics for children and gave away these for free.
Trying to replace a current day major mobilisation device such as the 'wheelchair' obsolete like the TEK Robotic Mobilization Device nearly has; it allows users to stand whenever they want to?
Connecting with non-profit organisations like the UK's AbleGamers Foundation and Special Effect to design gaming controls that will allow people to join in with the world of gaming who previously couldn't?
Enabling a service animal of a person with low vision or hearing loss to assist or perform vital activities?
Creating electronic signage for commercial businesses to communicate to absolutely everyone?
Inventing a cost effective control device for those affected and perhaps living in a lesser developed nation or disaster zone with mains electricity?
Developing any simpler age-friendly mobile communications device to aid our ageing generation to continue playing valuable roles within their family and community?

Good luck!

...and don't forget you can ask element14 experts and fellow global members any questions online.

Tags: inclusive_technology, electronic, entertainment, androids, aids, accessible, augmentative_and_alternative_communication, security, assistive_domotics, energy_conservation, _technology, one_button_gaming, robots, assistive, life, bionic_limbs, elderly_disabled_users, make, cybernetics, mobility, Design, smart_technology, home_automation, smart, challenge, motor_control, Accessibility, limbs, aac, prosthetics, 3d_printed, about

Make Life Accessible - Enabling Freedom with Motor Control: The Kit

element14Dave — Fri, 04 Mar 2016 20:19:33 GMT

Current Revision posted to Documents by element14Dave on 3/4/2016 8:19:33 PM

Make Life Accessible Design Challenge
About this Challenge	Example Project	Overview Video
The Prizes	Terms and Conditions	The Judges

Challengers!

There will be 15 Challengers selected to receive a FREE official Maker Life Accessible Kit. Below you will find more information on what’s in The Kit – a variety of components and peripherals for you to sink your soldering iron in to and connect to the NXP FRDM-KV31 FRDM-KV31 and FRDM-MC-LVPMSM.FRDM-MC-LVPMSM.

If you want to participate in the Make Life Accessible Challenge, the only REQUIRED piece of your final build are the FRDM-KV31 FRDM-KV31 and FRDM-MC-LVPMSMFRDM-MC-LVPMSM. Whether you receive the Challengers’ Kit or decide to enter on your own, you still have a chance to win one of our fabulous prize packages.

Other Parts included in this kit include:

Motor (PMSM)
Proximity SensorsProximity Sensors
Linear Position TransducerLinear Position Transducer
Ultrasonic Distance SensorUltrasonic Distance Sensor
Capacitive Touch SensorCapacitive Touch Sensor
AccelerometerAccelerometer
WireWire
Power RelaysPower Relays
Indicator LEDsIndicator LEDs
Toggle SwitchesToggle Switches
PushbuttonsPushbuttons

The approximate value of the Kit is $500 USD

Attachments:

community.element14.com/.../psm.pdf

psm.pdf