![]() Rather than take on the task of completely redesigning the wheelchair, the pair sought to make such lever-powered wheelchairs more accessible to everyday users. ![]() The wheelchair hack is an answer to the expensive lever-powered wheelchairs they saw that retailed anywhere from $2,000 to $10,000. Their Hand Drive wheelchair attachment is a finalist in the 2015 Best Product category on Hackaday. Kate Reed is an avid unicyclist and a street performer at Faneuil Hall in Boston, MA, and Nathaniel Tong is a competitive fencer and entrepreneur who has started two businesses on the strength of products he’s made himself. ![]() Rapid prototyping and 3D printing have opened the world of product development to a community beyond professional engineers and designers to include a range of smart people with helpful, if not necessarily lucrative, ideas.Īs a result, a pair of brilliant and dedicated designers have created a wheelchair attachment meant to allow any wheelchair to be powered via a rowing motion, and the piece is 3D printable, open source and consequently, available to anyone in need. ![]()
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