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  • DIY Electronic Controlled Motorized Wheelchair -- Episode 550

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  • A Hands Free Wheelchair For A Cause!

    To help a viewer with a new baby on the way, Ben builds a power drive add-on for his wheelchair, with foot controls. **New Episodes Every Other Monday!** Ask Ben Questions in the element14 Community: http://www.element14.com/community/community/ex...
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  • Hacking an Invacare Pronto Electric Wheelchair - Part 6

    A tidy up of the wiring allows everything to fix inside the exisitng chassis nice and neatly.
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  • Hacking an Invacare Pronto Electric Wheelchair - Part 3

    With the addition of a 12V lead acid battery and a spare laptop to act as a wifi to ethernet bridge, the wheelchair is now untethered and controllable via wifi.
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  • Hacking an Invacare Pronto Electric Wheelchair - Part 2

    The joystick on the wheelchair turned out to be connected with a 6-wire cable and probing the signals on that cable with my oscilliscope turned up something that looked a lot like a 9600bps serial data feed. After a few hours of analysing the data...
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  • Hacking an Invacare Pronto Electric Wheelchair - Part 1

    Back in 2010 I was thinking about building some kind of automated machine or robot for cleaning up the hundreds of windfall apples from my lawn each week. Rather than buying new motors I decided to pick up an old electric wheelchair from ebay and ...
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  • Smart WheelChair Complete Demo | Design for a Cause [#10]

    This is a video for showcasing the completed and integrated smart wheelchair half of the 'Cue-based system for Anosmia and Smart WheelChair' project, which I have been doing for the 'Design for a Cause' design challenge conducted by Element14 Comm...
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  • See Ben Heck's Motorized Wheelchair Episode -- Episode 48

    element14's The Ben Heck Show Join the Ben Heck team every week for amazing hacks! Watch them build and mod community-inspired projects using electronics! Back to The Ben Heck Show homepage Connect with TBHS Featured Bonus Materials See All Episodes …

  • iPortal Wheelchair Interface for iPhones Gets an Upgrade

    Next week at Rehacare in Dusseldorf, Germany, Dynamic Controls , a company out of Christchurch, New Zealand, will be showing off their latest iteration of the iPortal interface that links iPhones with wheelchair controllers. The iPortal now allows users…

  • Smater life challenge: The Intelligent wheelchair-Final

    BLDC motor driver speed control My wheelchair use two numbers of BLDC motors working on 24 V DC. The speed of these motors can be varied by a DC voltage in the range 0 to 5 Volts applied to the speed control input of BLDC driver circuit. Since PSOC4 does…

  • Tongue-controlled wheelchair system outperforms breath-controlled designs

    Georgia Tech’s Tongue Drive System (via GT) There is a limited selection when it comes to wheelchairs that can be self-driven and maneuvered by quadriplegics. Controlling them usually consists of ‘breath-power’, where the user blows or inhales into a…

  • Japanese robotic wheelchair conquers steps

    Prototypes (via Nakajia Lab ) Wheel chairs traverse the smooth pavement without a problem, but how about when there are small obstacles such as a curb or a few steps in the way? Researchers from Chiba Institute of Technology, led by Shuro Nakajima, have…

  • One man's 200 mile solar powered wheelchair journey

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  • Toyota Mobility Foundation finalists present the future of assisted mobility

    Toyota Mobility Foundation has revealed the five finalists from their competition to find a way to pair smart technology with mobile technology. Qolo is just one of the ways the future of assisted mobility is being reimagined (Concept image by Simon Mckeown…

  • Panasonic Provides Autonomous Wheelchairs to the Revamp of a Japanese Airport

    Panasonic’s contribution is part of Japan’s larger plan to renovate navigation and transportation within airport terminals starting with Haneda Airport in Tokyo. The autonomous wheelchairs can navigate independently or in tandem with other chairs. (Photo…

  • Tetraplegic (quadriplegic) playing Nintendo WII

    tetraplegic (quadriplegic) playing car racing games on Nintendo WII
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  • This wheelchair moves like a Segway and climbs stairs like a tank

    The ‘Scalevo’ – a new design for a wheelchair that can climb stairs. A team of 10 students from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and the Zurich University of the Arts invented an innovative new wheelchair. This new chair moves like a Segway …

  • [Interview] Student’s mod wheelchair with help of 3D printer and are invited to the White House

    NuVu Studios student’s Kate Reed and Nathaniel Tong designed their Wheelchair Hand Drive to allow users to easily propel themselves both forward and backward. (all images via Kate Reed and Nathaniel Tong ) The standard wheelchair design hasn’t changed…

  • First major Arduino Project: Wheelchair Signal Board

    I am a more "mature" student and while I have been working IT self employed style for a a few years I have returned to school to upgrade my IT skills. I have elected to take a course on building gadgets which will center around the Ardunino Uno. So far…